Farms: Biodiversity first - Encouraging native bees on French Farms
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Have just started a project with four fruit farms to see what native cavity-nesting bees are present on their farms with the idea of enhancing their populations.
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You are very welcome. Have got some very good results (20+ tunnels sealed) from one of the farms just today and as it's a fruit-tree variety breeding farm, they are happy to share the project with their clients, so the effort has been worth it. The way I went about it was to offer tunnel habitats I had made for free (no short-term commercial gain), but they were willing to give it a go. I hope you'll get some local contacts before next spring and give it a go. :)
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Thanks for this video - I want to do this for some farms too! Thanks for caring about the earth.
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Thanks. I think if you move to the next town or within the same area or small state, moving mason bees will not cause a problem. They are still more or less native and probably have more or less the same predators, plants and parasites. However I think it's right and good to wait and see what sorts of bees live in your new area before you impose a population. After all there are about 4000 native bee species in North America.
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Vielen Dank - Ich mag deine Videos auf die Unterstützung Hornissen.
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sehr gut gemachtes Video, Daumen hoch. VlG Hornissenpapst