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	Announcement: READ THIS FIRST	0	biobee	24986	Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:03 pm biobee
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	Feeding bees ....	3	What Now?	1537	Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:04 pm Barbara
	Reasons for swarming apart from overcrowding/honey bound	1	joshrobs	1252	Fri Aug 09, 2019 1:11 pm Barbara
	Apiary location (aka where do bees fly?)	1	joshrobs	1809	Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:57 pm Barbara
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	Few Questions About Commercial Beekeeping	1	Fitaci	2178	Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:50 pm Adriaan
	Looking for info on Urban/Balcony beekeeping.	1	Adam B	2025	Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:14 pm Adam B
	Beginning beekeeping questions	0	Bapelkonr	2390	Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:20 pm Bapelkonr
	Midges	0	evdama	2372	Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:57 pm evdama
	Preparing for winter ...	1	What Now?	3339	Wed Sep 12, 2018 12:07 pm catchercradle
	Dadant-Blatt to TBH	0	Leila	3247	Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:31 pm Leila
	Warre - new box	10	What Now?	7518	Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:27 pm Barbara
	What to do next?	2	Mudfish99	3897	Mon Jul 23, 2018 12:38 am colobeekeep
	Dead queen after going from frames to TBH	3	oerdnj	4207	Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:08 pm oerdnj
	Is it too late to introduce a nuc into my new top bar hive	1	wendyb	4340	Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:05 am catchercradle
	moving a newly caught swarm	8	johndk	5965	Sat Jul 07, 2018 8:14 pm johndk
	Colony growth and capped honey stores	4	PeterH	4783	Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:03 pm PeterH
	honeycomb foundation	1	dugudr	3586	Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:36 am Barbara
	transfer	6	Orange65	6455	Sat May 12, 2018 6:58 pm Barbara
	Cell Cappings	1	augold	3827	Wed May 09, 2018 3:40 pm Barbara
	Home offered for swarm	1	paulpb	4221	Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:56 pm Houstonbees
	entrances	2	freebee	4510	Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:58 am freebee
	Queen cells	4	Orange65	5075	Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:16 pm Orange65
	Transferring Bees from a framed Nuc to the TBH	2	Alastair Rhodes	12150	Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:20 pm gizmo
	Mouldy brood	4	heathervale	6603	Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:14 pm heathervale
	mold	2	freebee	5546	Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:13 am freebee
	feeding bees too much?	8	gizmo	9267	Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:59 pm Barbara
	beegym	1	freebee	5221	Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:33 pm catchercradle
	nucs this week [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	36	gizmo	29215	Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:44 am AndyC
	natural enemy of SHB..... [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	31	gizmo	33228	Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:56 pm gizmo
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	Can bees survive the winter on rape honey?	2	ValeHeadBeek	6052	Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:37 pm Barbara
	Help! -mold and mildew	26	elight23	74531	Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:50 am ashcroftashby
	Fondant	2	rendauphin	6284	Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:04 pm BBC
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	Give them room	1	AndyC	5355	Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:07 am catchercradle
	Bumble	5	Yorks tbh	7545	Wed Jun 14, 2017 7:25 am Ollie
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Quality Top Bar Hives by Andrew Vidler

Conserving wild bees

Research suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate.

Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight.

There is a spectacular display of wild bee hotels here

More about bumblebees and solitary bees here

Information about the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)