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2026-05-05 10:42 UTC
@MiguelGuerreiro@ecoevo.social Can you provide a link to that evidence please? That would be great to look at.
I’ve been following a citizen science project by Prof. Dave Goulson’s Buzz Club here in the UK. It’s collecting useful information on bee hotels.
It is in its infancy. Bee hotels do attract mites but as to should you clean out your bed hotel, the jury is still out on it.
Their data suggests hotels that weren’t cleaned out have more occupied holes.
#Bees #Pollinators
https://youtu.be/6c_YhzKD0mo?si=8AHM_AHH7EnCvPWU
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@MiguelGuerreiro@ecoevo.social 2026-05-06 10:44
@Broadfork@mastodon.green my evidence is only from watching others do and show (on youtube) the results of not cleaning them (a lot of coccons dead and spread of mites to newer generations). Which is worth what it is... I look forward to check the results from this study.
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@MiguelGuerreiro@ecoevo.social 2026-05-06 10:48
@Broadfork@mastodon.green huh! I follow Dave Goulson on youtube! Occupancy is not the same as fitness or survavibility of offspring. When I have time I will check this better, but thank you for the heads up!