(I also added rolls of cardboard at the top, to fill out the gaps (as I did not have enough hemlock stems), these are made out of the inner parts of toilet paper rolls, one inside the other.)
I wonder whether I will get any tenants this summer...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
house in the mailbox, in the suburbs
I have built a "house" for the leaf-cutter bees in some old disused metal mailbox (found in a water drain after heavy rains sometime ago). The house consists of a bundle of tightly put next to each other cut bare stems of hemlock (Conium maculatum), which is a weed often found along the streams and wetlands here in Canberra. The mailbox still has a sticker "No junk mail please" on it...
(I also added rolls of cardboard at the top, to fill out the gaps (as I did not have enough hemlock stems), these are made out of the inner parts of toilet paper rolls, one inside the other.)
I wonder whether I will get any tenants this summer...
(I also added rolls of cardboard at the top, to fill out the gaps (as I did not have enough hemlock stems), these are made out of the inner parts of toilet paper rolls, one inside the other.)
I wonder whether I will get any tenants this summer...
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