The bee hotel
Today I finally decided to use those left over wood and some logs I have collected to build a bee hotel in the backyard. Native bees in Australia are mostly solitary and build their nest in existing environment such as holes in trees, hollow logs etc... So building an habitat for them is pretty easy.
I started with those left over pine wood planks (not ideal for outdoors but we'll see) to make the frame.
I then added the back wall and a roof at 22 degrees angle to allow rain water to run down. I then took some wood logs and using a hole cutter borer I drilled many holes of diameters from 8 to 12 mm at about 12 to 15 cm depth.
The bee hotel is finally completed and I installed it on a pole hammered into the ground. It's a bit wobbly so I might have to hammer some more next weekend. The bee hotel has been installed in a corner of the garden where there will be flowers. I'm very excited and looking forward to see some bees making their nest. I saw some blue banded bees last year so I will have to make them some habitat out of clay and add it to the bee hotel.
The contest
Today I will buy 5 @smartvote shares for the winner of today's contest which is very simple: take a photo of a flower with your hand in the picture and your Steem username written on it, then post your photo in the comments below. If you don't want to write on your hand, you can write on a piece of paper and hold it in front of the flower. Here is an example of valid photo:
In 7 days, at payout for this post, I will randomly pick a winner to win 5 SmartVote shares that will give you 100 SP daily upvote from @smartvote for life.
Previously on my Ulog:
- ULOG 120 - Garden update
- ULOG 119 - Simple ways to promote Steem every day
- ULOG 118 - International Phonetic Alphabet and Mandarin Chinese
- ULOG 117 - Myth busting: The Steem Witnesses and the Reward Pool
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