DoomsdaysCW#BeeNesting Houses
Construction, placement, and maintenance
"Placing wooden bee nesting houses in your yard, garden, and around woodland edges is an effective means of increasing populations of cavity-nesting bees, especially mason and leafcutting bees. Several designs are available for purchase, so just follow the placement and maintenance recommendations offered in this fact sheet.
If you have woodworking skills, make your own nesting houses. The design described in this fact sheet is an adaptation of the conservation bee nesting houses used in research, modified for the tools that homeowners would have on hand.
Materials needed
- An 8-foot 2×6 makes 15 (6 1/4-inch) houses, which is more than enough houses for a quarter-acre lot. Bee houses can be made from soft or hard woods. Spruce 2x6s work well. Do not use pressure-treated wood.
- Metal 3/4-inch perforated strapping (also called plumber’s strapping or plumber’s tape).
- 1-inch or 1 1/4-inch screws for attaching the perforated strapping to the back of the bee houses.
- 3/4-inch screws if houses are attached to wood stakes, or 1 to 1 1/4-inch screws if houses are to be attached to the side of a shed or barn or to fence posts.
- 5-foot wood stakes. Two relatively inexpensive stakes can be made from a 10-foot piece of ceiling strapping.
Tools needed
- Power drill
- Drill bits with 9/64-inch, 5/16-inch, and 7/16-inch diameters
- Screw bit or screwdriver
- Circular saw or hand saw
- A sledge hammer if bee houses will be mounted on wooden stakes"
Learn more:
https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/7153e/#conservation
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