Breeding of osmium bees. Osmia rufa, cornuta, hives

Yes, I saw such a house. I think similar to build in the spring.
Here are the boundaries of the site with compass orientation, which side and where would it be better to place such a beehive?

Put it facing south-east (close to the north wall) - you will not lose.

And willows-yes, a good thing.

These are the hives you need to make

To such hives located in an open area, you need to tie the Carcharot so that the spiritual and cultural ones with staples are not destroyed or burned.
Well, or a grid with barbed wire around the perimeter and an automatic fire extinguishing system.

The idea of putting bumblebees in pieces of rodent-smelling cotton wool is cool, but it would probably be better to put an ordinary white mouse in it.

Well, suppose I still see one security innovation: instead of "wasps" it says "bees". But this is not an unambiguous matter: will not such a renaming of drunken tourists resemble an attempt to extract honey?

To such hives located in an open area, you need to tie the Carcharot so that the spiritual and cultural ones with staples are not destroyed or burned.
Well, or a grid with barbed wire around the perimeter and an automatic fire extinguishing system.

However, its predecessor was burned at Nezalezhnaya Square, and this one has been standing for almost two years without any such grids and fancy systems.

Well, suppose I still see one security innovation: instead of "wasps" it says "bees". But this is not an unambiguous matter: will not such a renaming of drunken tourists resemble an attempt to extract honey?

These are Canadian hives for leaf cutters, the inscription serves as an additional guide for bees, so that they can better find their nest. And at the entrance to the fence there is a poster where everything is painted, what kind of bees, and why they do not have honey.

Why is there no honey? Got it! True, with pollen together, but so for health, they say, it is more useful (for non-allergic people).

And, well, since these are leaf cutters, and in such quantities, then, obviously, the main security function is performed by EPS!

Somehow it is not customary to call bread honey with pollen. And leaf cutters are not required there, there are about the same holes as in the reed, they are suitable for different bees and wasps. The idea is to collect the maximum variety in such a hive - hollow stems, wood with holes, stems with a soft core, etc.

today I cut ocheret in a new way, with a partition on one edge of the tube. I tore off the leaves. It turns out 2 times faster than cutting with a flat end. The only thing is a dog of different lengths.He chopped up all sorts of reeds, and thin ones too. These thin ones are twisted separately for predatory wasps.
By the way, I have sealed thin tubes in the corner of the plot, I did not disassemble them.
If you open them, and there will be wasps, what is the best way to store their pupae?

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And how are the osmias doing with recognizing their cell among a bunch of reeds? Each female only brings food to her own cells, or can she leave it in someone else's neighboring cell?
By the way, about the flight radius too-Carcharoth, you all know what the foraging radius is osmium? Yes, and eumenin is also interesting, but it is also interesting about osmium in a practical sense, for example, will the steppe located 1.5 km from my house be accessible to osmium that may live on my balcony, or only all sorts of deposits near the house?

And kstti reed can be cut with a thin circular saw, put it on the grinder and go ahead, although this is not for an apartment, but I think the cutting speed will be half a second and without effort-just touched and all

And the kstti reed can be cut with a thin circular saw, put it on the grinder and go ahead, although this is not for an apartment, but I think the cutting speed will be-half a second and without effort-just touched and that's it

don't don't! just not on the grinder!
Brother without fingers 2 times almost stayed...

Osmia will not fly to the "steppe for 1.5 km". They are not steppe at all (at least cornuta and bicornis). The steppe has its own fauna of bees, mostly burrowing, and, to a lesser extent, settling in vertically protruding broken reeds, such as ceratins. In our area, and in Nikolaev - even more so, the two above-mentioned osmium species are synanthropic and feed in the appropriate places on cultivated plants. Kornuta fills the tube at a rate of about 10 cm per day, only has time to fly back and forth. I believe that if I had flown for a bribe for a mile and a half, the pace would have been somewhat different.

I cut reeds with a knife-saw, there is such a kitchen tool. I make a shallow circular saw cut, and then break it off, like a glass ampoule. It turns out perfectly smooth and accurate. Once on a fishing trip, I lost the bearing from the roller of the reel logger, so I picked up a suitable reed, sawed a smooth sleeve out of it with this thread exactly to the size, and soon continued fishing.

don't don't! just not on the grinder!
Brother without fingers 2 times almost stayed...

Come on, it's dangerous if you cut wood, there, or something that can jam, if the grinder is securely fixed in a vise or clamp, put a regular saw about 1.5 mm, and throw off the speed controller, and just put a reed on the side-it should only cut like this)

If you open them, and there will be wasps, what is the best way to store their pupae?

In glass tubes, tightly plugged with cotton wool.

I cut some reeds today. Cutting the stems is easier than easy: slightly pruned at the base with one movement of the aforementioned saw blade, tilted and ready, you can throw on the pile. It takes at most 10 seconds for one stalk (along with throwing), and it's quite fun. But since I don't have a machine for transporting reed stacks, unlike Karaharot, then a very long and boring process of fragmentation into pieces that fit into a bag followed. This is already more difficult: you need to make a circular cut, preferably at the node, and then carefully break it off, and so five times on one stem. If you saw and break it carelessly, the stem breaks up along the length into strips and becomes unusable as a nest. So it took about an hour to grind. Now it will be necessary to mark the time for the production of one hive.

My material also drives in the front seat in the car. When I cut the reed, I cut off the upper part immediately, I don't like it, it's thin and often breaks. I take the thickest part on my tubes-from the middle to the root.

And how are the osmias doing with recognizing their cell among a bunch of reeds? Each female only brings food to her own cells, or can she leave it in someone else's neighboring cell?
By the way, about the flight radius too-Carcharoth, you all know what the foraging radius is osmium? Yes, and eumenin is also interesting, but it is also interesting about osmium in a practical sense, for example, will the steppe located 1.5 km from my house be accessible to osmium that may live on my balcony, or only all sorts of deposits near the house?

Each only in its own way.

I didn't measure the radius, but they can fly 1.5 km without any problems. But what will they find there? Rather, they will collect pollen where there are closer and more flowers (ruderal cruciferae are a joy to them, as well as a bunch of flowering tree species will probably be found closer to the balcony). Eumenins, according to my observations, fly for prey a couple of hundred meters from the nest, and then I simply do not see them, i.e. this does not mean that they do not fly further (up to several km) .

I cut some reeds today. Cutting the stems is easier than easy: slightly pruned at the base with one movement of the aforementioned saw blade, tilted and ready, you can throw on the pile. It takes at most 10 seconds for one stalk (along with throwing), and it's quite fun. But since I don't have a machine for transporting reed stacks, unlike Karaharot, then a very long and boring process of fragmentation into pieces that fit into a bag followed. This is already more difficult: you need to make a circular cut, preferably at the node, and then carefully break it off, and so five times on one stem. If you saw and break it carelessly, the stem breaks up along the length into strips and becomes unusable as a nest. So it took about an hour to grind. Now it will be necessary to mark the time for the production of one hive.

I don't have a truck either, but you can order cargo delivery for less than 1,000 rubles, and if you break up, as I wrote, with a shovel on the ice, 5-10 stacks, it will last for several years to come - much better than having to suffer with cutting into pieces that will fit into a bag or on the front the seat.

I cut in small armfuls, as I cut pipes in the evening, when there is nothing to do. and I work 3 jobs... a large number simply have nowhere to place, so far. Here I will get rich, build a 3-storey garage, in the attic there will be reeds to dry and bees to live, on the second I will take a nap and listen to the buzz, and in the basement there will be a wine cellar, potatoes, salty fat..... that's just to earn more....

I'll probably sell wine, but I'm not an alcoholic drinker..

In this case, I can admire your enthusiasm, because after three jobs in the evening, when there is nothing to do, I would probably just sleep soundly, what kind of bees are there...

Each only in its own way.

I didn't measure the radius, but they can fly 1.5 km without any problems. But what will they find there? Rather, they will collect pollen where there are closer and more flowers (ruderal cruciferae are a joy to them, as well as a bunch of flowering tree species will probably be found closer to the balcony). Eumenins, according to my observations, fly for prey a couple of hundred meters from the nest, and then I simply do not see them, i.e. this does not mean that they do not fly further (up to several km).

Well, in principle, yes, there are enough "flowers" nearby, there are still a lot of dandelions, and I think I also saw osmium on them.

osmia, you can't sell something that you don't like yourself
And why the wine in the photo is muddy is a mess. Wine, which is already going to the final "suck", should be transparent to the eye, and without bubbles) that is, first you need to make overflows, and then the sediment will be full of loose
Well, washing the cork is also a dumb thing, they write that then the rotten taste will be, at home it is better to stand in ordinary cans, rolling up the usual lid, only of course the cans should not be turned over and not shaken, so that the wine does not wash the metal lid

My relatives like it, I can try 30 grams myself, there are no bubbles for a long time. that one bottle is from the rest, last year's, quietly poured, leaving at the bottom of the tartar about isadok.
In a jar - I only have 3 liters, well, or bottled, so it's more interesting and beautiful. No matter how many times they opened it, it never went bad.
By the way, it seems to me that osmia does not really work on grapes...

A couple of sunny days, and the bees are already gone.
A handful of males emerged from their cocoons.
I had to take the box to a colder place.

I found a new material for Fabre hives - the rotten stems of a young growth of ailanthus. They already have a small central cavity, but the main thing is that the core is soft, it is very easy to drill. And the outer edges of the wood are quite hard and thick, so that even xylocopa is unlikely to chew through. But at the same time fragile, for dismantling nests can be split almost as easily as reeds. The only thing that confuses: under the xylocope, you still have to re-drill, the smell of metal (and my drills stink terribly) will not frighten the bee?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF0wlqaiaqg
the males hatched on the balcony, one was captured on camera.

This post was edited by osmia - 19.02.2016 20: 48

won't the smell of metal (and my drills stink terribly) scare away a bee?

I don't know if the smell of ailanthus would have put me off more. And in the drilled holes they populate sometimes, but I don't know what kind of drills were used there, I didn't think that they have a different degree of smelliness.

I drilled maple, cherry, walnut, after the second hole the smell of oil is almost not audible, but if you overexpose the drill-the wood burns, it stinks.
the maple trees were poorly populated, the coniferous boards were not very well populated, but the fruit trees were to their taste.
I sit cutting reeds..

Something is too thin reed, large roots may not fit. Or are they just vertex fragments?

Something is too thin reed, large roots may not fit. Or are they just vertex fragments?

What kind of oil? I don't even know what kind of drills such oil-based ones are. Mine have never had any oil on them, they stink of tool steel, and that's forever. It is not necessary to drill the soft core of aylanthus with a drill, you can use a kolorot or simply by hand, then nothing will burn.

These are thin stems for various small things.
Thick cut a month ago. Although, probably, I will go and add more, in reserve.
I sort into thick, medium and very thin stems, respectively, in mating one type of stem, geographically place in different corners of the site.
And the drills are Chinese, some crap was smeared.....
I will drill with an electric drill, but I don't have enough breathing holes to make a manual or rotary one.

rotten has no smell, except for the smell of rotten wood, especially not. There were many xylocop nests in the old ailanthus trunk before it fell.

Well, if that's the case, then it's worth a try.

розібрав вулик з дрібними трубками - там е літні бджоли, в них кришечки з пережованого листя.
а також декілька ос павукоїдів.
3 лемляні кокони, хто там - я не знаю.

Here you have Trypoxylon cocoons, but whose earthen cells they are - it's hard to make out, but it's probably Auplopus (they also catch spiders, but one in each cell).

Osmia, is something wrong with your "language processor"? Or is it ideological?

Excerpt from the rules of this forum:

A week of work, reading in Ukrainian, automatically wrote. I think this is normal, knowing languages is useful. Please do not attach politics to bees.
We live in a free country, we can speak and write in any language.
Today I will place the evidence on the site, and the cocoons will pour out in a box on the street.

It is useful to know some languages (I speak Ukrainian well enough to state that your penultimate post is definitely not written in it), but I am not sure about the other participants of this forum. For example, Pan Hierophis, despite the fact that he signed himself there as a place of residence, in reality knows only one language - Surzhik with a predominance of Russian. Also, do not forget that most of the participants are Russians, who are not required to know the Ukrainian language. The forum rules only provide for two languages: Russian and English. So if you have a good command of one of them, then you should probably use it.

Please do not attach politics to bees.

I support you, I'm tired of it all!

But about languages... Not "hives Fabra", but "Fabre's hives" should be.

This post was edited by Carcharot - 01.03.2016 14: 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr77OZDIxCw cut reeds, made houses 3 times more than last year, even not all hung up yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0j4yZYZWxw
I took off the last unassembled hive, sit, split the tubes.
Many have thick yellowish larvae.
https://goo.gl/photos/Nh2nSp9ArkpRQsPk9

This post was edited by osmia - 11.03.2016 08: 34

The last link is broken.

I've already seen such bees in the steppes, it's a pity, it didn't work out well to take a picture - well, they are VERY shy, even 50 cm distance didn't help )

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