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Solitary bees and poisons from Black Locust wood.
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Rooney
Vancouver SW Washington
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April 15, 2015 - 7:27 pm
  Eight of nine holes completed last year and Mason bees never hatching. Previous years using
Douglas Fir wood -no problem.
Now
Black Locust wood -big problem.

Special repellants here for Black Locust not present in Firs?

Oh well. Lessons learned.

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John S
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April 24, 2015 - 9:35 pm

Black locust does have some special chemical properties that would make me not want to use it for this purpose.  I wouldn't use cedar, black walnut, pine or redwood either. 

Doug fir is considered not as bad. Spruce and true fir would be better than Doug fir.

The guy with the Mason bees in Seattle urges people to use reeds. They seem to work better than wood blocks. As we've said on this site, teasel works really well. Mine fill up with bee cocoons much faster than wood blocks, and they can be individually cleaned.

John S
PDX OR

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