June 26, 2019 Moving a Bumblebee Nest, Charles Newbold, Charles Christopher Perry, The Rolling Stones, Margaret Morse Nice, Annette Wynne, Diana Wells, Planting Sunflower Seeds, and San Francisco Gardener John McLaren
Have you ever needed to move a bumblebee nest?
We discovered a nest under the basketball hoop on the driveway when the guys came to sealcoat.
To move it, I waited until dusk. Then I grabbed a terra cotta pot that was a little bigger than the nest... and my pizza peel from kitchen.
I placed the pot over the nest and then slid the peel under the pot.
As I was carrying the nest, the buzzing sound from inside the pot was tremendous.
I moved the nest about 10 feet away into a shaded and out-of-the-way spot in the garden. Then, I cut a 10 inch piece of 1inch tubing from my irrigation system and…
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