For sheer beauty, the bee houses of Carinthia and Slovenia are unbeatable. Starting in the 18th c. peasants would decorate the front end boards of the hives with colorful, often biblical, paintings, the famous "panjska končnica". pic.twitter.com/olfgOctqbS
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Last but not least, even "wild bees" and solitary bees have had houses built for them by humans eager to help the bees in their work of pollinating fields and orchards. Here is one from Germany. pic.twitter.com/vaxI7aPW1f
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The bread that changed how the Irish eat breakfast https://t.co/G9cDsCVVKG via @BBC_Travel
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"March Mitigation" commences as unusually cold late-season storm sequence arrives https://t.co/7RnuFW7dgT
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Most Original & Creative Ways to Repurpose Old Cars https://t.co/ZbIXNPfhH3 via @iRecyclart
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The Pacific Food and Beverage Museum is getting a new home in San Pedro, CA! Check out this article for more… https://t.co/LlBkE32SDJ
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Happy belated birthday to the "plant wizard" Luther Burbank. See my tribute to his life love of plants here: https://t.co/rnPMhrszzj
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The Florida International Bridge Collapse Is About So Much More Than a Failed Structure https://t.co/6YiMCjEqjg via @StreetsblogUSA
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How Can Vision Zero Work When L.A. Continues to Prioritize Speed? https://t.co/uGFkoBf6sH via @StreetsblogLA
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How Wood You? Build Your Own Window Box https://t.co/tHKk0Q0meS
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At least 70 people have been employed, since we began work with border communities. https://t.co/FXUHO89VWF
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Here are some of the animals found in Ireland, according to Gerald of Wales (d. 1223): the crane and barnacle geese; stag, fox, badger and beaver; leaping salmon of Munster; kingfisher and stork #StPatricksDay https://t.co/WKPlVkfruz pic.twitter.com/0lcq1kdUk6
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Many a car and truck in the South houses chickens. This is not purposeful. The chickens find the vehicles and call them home. Sometimes, the chickens’ owners might throw in a bale of straw. The vehicles are not decorated or have chicken wire to contain the birds. The owners would laugh at decorating.
Years ago, when my mom and dad’s community suddenly transformed from agrarian to young-professional-bedroom, a place where Hummers became the car of choice (especially laughable because there was not a hill or unpaved road to be found), Dad would sometimes joke that, come the zombie apocalypse, those Hummers would make exceptionally fine chicken coops. Maybe not as silly as we thought at the time.
I’m trying to gin up some sympathy for your precipitation deficiency, I really am. However, in the last two weeks or so we’ve had more than three feet of snow. As much as I like winter, enough is enough. On a more practical level, if you can figure out a way to get it from Vermont to California, you’re welcome to as much as you want. The chickens would agree; they hate snow on their little feet.
I love the painted bee houses. They remind me of a friend of mine who has made so many things in her house similarly both beautiful and functional.
I suspect that constructing a bee house would be ideal for places that get long and cold winters. It might be good protection from bears too instead of the chain-link/electrified fences I’ve spotted around Montana hives.