bee block

n. Nautical

A piece of hardwood on either side of a bowsprit through which forestays are reeved.

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Attract bees by building your own bee block, courtesy the USDA.

This can take the form of wooden bee blocks with a series of holes drilled to accommodate bee eggs, replaceable cardboard tubes or other suitable holes.

America's bees: native insects may be the solution to growing orchard and garden pollination problems

Try the Countryside Culture Mason Bee Block House ($22; Northwest Nature Shop, northwest natureshop.com or 877/482-3241).

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Bee blocks This is a great product for bees - it's a brick/block with holes in it.

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The six-foot structure stands on a 4-by-4-foot wooden pallet and is stacked high with found materials like wooden "bee blocks" with quarter-inch holes drilled in them, bricks and cinderblocks, wooden logs, and dead and broken stems and sticks.

'Bee hotel' abuzz with research about pollinators: UNH professor seeks to study New Hampshire's estimated 250 species of native bees

In addition, you can put up nesting boxes for birds, bat houses and even bee blocks (See MOTHER'S special offer in "For the Birds," Page 49).

Wildlife habitat: here's how you can enjoy all kinds of birds, butterflies, pollinating native bees and other fun and fascinating critters right in your own back yard. (garden & yard)

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