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"Beryl Harwood" wrote in message
I have only had a few around here, there seemed to be a good quantity
early in the year when it was warm, but I assumed, like others, that the
cold and wet had kept them away. Anyway I have put up a 'bee tube' in
the hopes of providing some shelter.

I don't know what you mean by a 'bee tube,' a collection of tubes will
provide nesting facilities for some kind of bees but not honey bees and not
bumble bees.

This is a tube [like a drain pipe but this is tan in colour and special
consstruction I think] with several different size smaller tubes inside
a bit like bamboo sizes. They are not aimed at the honey or bumbles but
some of the others that escapes me right now. I want to say monarch,
but that is a butterfly so it can't be, also a 'leaf cutter' bee?
Anyway I thought that to try and save any would be better than nothing.
I am not sure if there is any other kind of refuge I could provide.
There was never another visit to that old bird nesting pocket and it has
rotted away now.

Beryl