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While digging the other day I unearthed a bee pot (can't remember it's proper name I'm afraid) that I buried years ago. Idea no doubt from a magazine or something.
Essentially it was an upturned ceramic flower pot, the kind with a single hole in the base, totally buried in a quiet corner where the grass grows long (unkempt basically), with a piece of hose connected to the pot base one end and in the open air at the other, some bedding material inside the pot and a bit of chicken wire underneath to hold it clear of the damp soil. The idea was to attract bees looking for nesting sites and then for them to set up a nest inside. I don't think it ever served it's purpose. All I found inside was some spiders web.
Any success elsewhere? I'm not so much talking about abandoned logs or a pile of rubble, more where you've actually taken the trouble to construct something
Essentially it was an upturned ceramic flower pot, the kind with a single hole in the base, totally buried in a quiet corner where the grass grows long (unkempt basically), with a piece of hose connected to the pot base one end and in the open air at the other, some bedding material inside the pot and a bit of chicken wire underneath to hold it clear of the damp soil. The idea was to attract bees looking for nesting sites and then for them to set up a nest inside. I don't think it ever served it's purpose. All I found inside was some spiders web.
Any success elsewhere? I'm not so much talking about abandoned logs or a pile of rubble, more where you've actually taken the trouble to construct something
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