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couple months back i started noticing sawdust falling out of a nice piece of river driftwood ive got sitting on the block wall.

when i took a closer look i discovered 3 holes on its underside, each about 5/8th inch in diameter.

wasnt long before i noticed that bumblebees were coming and going from them

most all are black but one is a dull orange

at that point i did a search and discovered that you can purchase boxes which bumblebees will nest in.

they dont live long so they dont keep like honeybees but their still polinators

[ cept when they bite through the base of the flower and avoid the stamens... they do that sometimes ]
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Post by Intrinsic »

Sawdust out of wood .. it sounds more like carpenter bees.

But no, I haven’t raised pollinators, certainly not Carpenter bees, since I live in a cedar house! But a bumblebee colony might be kinda cool to try. There is both Carpenter and bumblebees around here.

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i got some pictures of the orange one.
have watched two of the black ones fly into one of those burrows one after the other.

these are big. definately bumbles

they have three burrows in the driftwood but ive only seen them come and go from two of the holes
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Post by deran »

lol i thought it was about dry sievin and poLLinators .... hehe
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i was thinking of becoming a bee keeper in suburbia, auctaully they thrive in cities and towns..

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i was going throught the most turmoil of my life at the time i took these pictures...
and id previously taken bullets from cops so i had something to compare it with

thank you all for listening to me rave all these years
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