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The bee hotel from the garden center probably isn't actually helping bees. It might even be hurting them. But a well-designed one actually can work.

Scott MacIvor, a researcher at the University of Toronto, set up 200 bee hotels across the city and monitored them for three years. What moved in: parasitic wasps, spiders, earwigs, and ants. Some native bees did use them, but the clustered design made it easy for disease and parasites to spread between nests in ways that wouldn't happen in their natural, wild habitat.

The problem isn't the bee hotel so much as how the bee hotel is built. Here's what university extension programs say most commercial hotels get wrong:

1. Pine cones, bark, moss, and loose organic filler are confirmed by NC State Extension to be essentially unused by nesting bees. They attract other insects and hold moisture.

2. Bamboo tubes are flagged as "controversial" by Utah State University Extension because the diameter is typically too large for most native species and the material can't be safely cleaned or inspected.

3. Holes shorter than six inches produce almost exclusively male offspring, skewing the population. Most commercial hotels use short tubes.

4. No maintenance plan means disease, mites, and parasites accumulate year over year. Penn State Extension says a hotel without annual cleaning using an emergence box fails within three to four seasons.

The deeper issue: about 70% of North American native bees actually nest in the ground, not in wood or tubes. A bee hotel does nothing for them regardless of design quality.

What IS recommended instead of a commercial hotel: drilled untreated hardwood blocks with holes between 3/16 and 3/8 inch in diameter, at least six inches deep, tilted slightly downward to prevent moisture, cleaned annually using an emergence box, placed facing southeast in a sheltered spot near flowering plants.

A well-built, well-maintained cavity nest can genuinely help mason bees and leafcutter bees, and they need the help. But what's sold at most garden centers doesn't meet that criteria and the research reflects it.

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C est horrible de faire ça

[Dominique Schelcher @schelcher]

Je ne pensais pas que cette information sur le #chocolat susciterait tant de réactions et de questions surprenantes ! Il y a bien plus important en ce moment, mais quelques compléments quand même :
🍫 En logistique, le chocolat est un vrai cauchemar thermique. Plus qu'une gourmandise, c'est une marchandise "thermosensible" ultra-capricieuse. Sa structure moléculaire dépend entièrement d'un équilibre thermique fragile.
🔥 Le coup de chaud (>25°C) : il fond, perd son précieux "craquant" au cassage et subit le Fat Bloom (le beurre de cacao remonte et forme un voile blanc).
❄️ Le coup de froid : si la température descend trop bas, le choc thermique crée de la condensation. C'est le Sugar Bloom (le sucre se dissout et recristallise en surface, rendant la texture granuleuse). Il devient aussi très cassant. Donc impossible de le transporter dans des camions réfrigérés, ce serait trop simple.
🎯 La zone de confort : entre 12°C et 18°C stables, pas un degré de plus ou de moins.
Un grand respect aux pros du transport qui gèrent cela. 🚚

[Saviglia @Saviglia]

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Well, was that civilised? Fun, but in no sense civilised 🤣🤣🤣

[Saviglia @Saviglia]

Ceci explique cela 🧐https://t.co/gNJlq2rV12

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[Saviglia @Saviglia]

Dugléré voulait un plat qui ressemble à sa muse : élégant à l’extérieur, fondant et riche à l’intérieur. Manifik !! 😋😋
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[Saviglia @Saviglia]

@BaliOst Nuova voglia: Unlocked. "Avere una gallina chiamata Beba Beba e nutrirla di petali di rosa, e poi raccogliere uova aroma loukoum" ❤️✨