> If you have a URL so we can all see this box,
> I would appreciate your posting it.
I don't have such a place. I could produce it I suppose that wouldn't be
much of a problem. Watch this space. However, the dimensions for the
bumblebee box are 6 inches high x 9 inches wide x 12 inches long. The top=
that sup****ts the shop-vac hoses fits both this box for bumblebees and a
much deeper one [30 inches] for taking honeybee swarms and clearing out
large hives from the eaves of houses and sometimes hollow walls of abando=
ned
places. You would be surprised to know how many places are just abandoned=
for no apparent reason. Olen family ****traits still hanging on the walls
Jimmy Rodgers 8 tracks scattered across the floor a Thomas Kinkade painti=
ng
here an Elvis ****trait there no.5 Walmart plastic containers strewn about=
the kitchen, it's hard to figure.
> BTW: Where is the best place to relate these
> bees?
I bring them here where I live, I'm on the western edge of a large canyon=
that stretches off to the east: [34.96 N. X 101.71 W.] I put them in an
unused brood chamber with a lot of trash and junk they like. They will
usually stay the rest of the year but don't over winter in the box. The
queen goes off somewhere and holds up. She never comes back to the old sp=
ot.
In the Spring she lays one egg and cares for it. When it hatches there's =
one
bumblebee then she creates another egg and the new bee looks after the
second egg and so on.
I know I've increased the Bumblebee population hereabouts because we alwa=
ys
have a lot of them flying around when the blooms come. I have peach and
apricot trees and my neighbor has an ancient apple tree. The peach trees
bloom early so the honeybees are all over them as they are about the only=
insects flying that early. Every blossom develops into a little peach, no=
exception. The bumblebees don't appear until late April early May. Right =
now
you can hear them booming in the blooming Locust tree outside my window.
humm.. I like that booming in the blooming, it's not exactly Yeats, but w=
ho is?
> I'm thinking of a Forest Preserve.
> When relocating them. do you dig them a small
> hole or just empty the box?
Anyplace you like. I wouldn't try to put them in a hole. The empty box
containing a lot of raked up trash is your best bet. I never see bumblebe=
es
in holes around here. If you live in Britain on the other hand. Once I to=
ok
a nest out of a flower pot with plastic flowers on a woman's ****ch.
> I presume=20
> relocation should be immediate?
Yes, next morning.
> Also what is your fee for doing this?
ah..I have a variable fee. It depends. If it's a lower middle to working
poor neighborhood a single mother perhaps with two grubby kids, I don't
charge anything. If it's high end suburbia with a three car garage and
matching SUV's probably $400.00. I think that's only fair. They're very
concerned about safety and that would be nothing to them.
no parezca demasiado espl=C3=A9ndido [old Mexican saying]
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