Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10

Working on next years bee tubes.

This time I am using dowels with 5, 6 and 7 mm diameters
to roll the paper tubes. Some tubes will be brown paper tubes
and some will be white.  I have parchment paper, so I will also
try to use it.

I could buy ready-made tubes but I like the idea of testing various
papers and sizes.  I will definitely make all the tubes 6 inches long.
My bamboo tubes in condo-2 are 6 inches long and the bees seem
to like those for nests.