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How to discourage some mining bees

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#1 · 31st July 2024, 7:27 am

Quote from helenwood5 on 31st July 2024, 7:27 am

We have a vast colony of mining bees, which is fine.  But in winter the badger comes and digs up the larvae / pupae, and makes a terrible mess of our banks.  Now the bees are starting to inhabit the lawn, and we don’t want the lawn dug up by the badger.  Is there any way of discouraging the bees from using the lawn?  For example, could we somehow put some electric current through the soil?  E,g. Like the battery operated spike used to discourage moles.  We have tried cinnamon but it doesn’t work.

 

We have a vast colony of mining bees, which is fine.  But in winter the badger comes and digs up the larvae / pupae, and makes a terrible mess of our banks.  Now the bees are starting to inhabit the lawn, and we don’t want the lawn dug up by the badger.  Is there any way of discouraging the bees from using the lawn?  For example, could we somehow put some electric current through the soil?  E,g. Like the battery operated spike used to discourage moles.  We have tried cinnamon but it doesn’t work.

 

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