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Mulch Madness and Ground Nesting Bees

16 years ago

I've been trying to attract more bees to my garden. There seems to be less bees here than last year. So I've been google searching "how to grow a bee garden". Lots of interesting info including this -

http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/general_mulchmadness.html

Apparently ground nesting bees need bare soil.

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