Build and mount a roofed frame with removable cavity-nesting bee units, a community garden, Hondo, TX.

This community garden's plot-holders have talked for two seasons about putting up a "bee hotel," and every version they've looked at online is a solid block with holes drilled straight into it -- exactly the design that turns into a fungus and parasite trap once the same tunnels host years of broods with nothing ever swapped out. Building a small roofed frame that holds removable paper-tube units instead solves that at the design stage: the frame stays, but nothing inside it is ever permanent.

Where

a public community garden with a post or fence line suited to a low-mounted nesting frame, Hondo, TX 78861 (Medina County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$140 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos + removable-unit confirmation + install date/unit type recorded + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-10

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Build or source a small roofed frame (roughly 12 by 12 by 8 inches, open-fronted, with an overhanging roof to shed rain) sized to hold a set of small-diameter nesting units -- never a solid block with holes drilled directly into it.
2. 2. Load the frame with removable nesting units only: paper-tube liners inside reed or cardboard sleeves, or thin wood trays that slide out by hand. Confirm the removable design by pulling one loaded unit out by hand before mounting.
3. 3. Mount the frame at a reachable height (about 3 to 5 feet) on a post or wall bracket, facing morning sun (east or southeast) and sheltered from prevailing rain, using hand tools only.
4. 4. Record the install date and the nesting-unit type and tunnel diameter offered -- this date sets the rotation schedule, since units are due for replacement after roughly one to two nesting seasons.
5. 5. Photograph the finished, mounted, loaded frame from the matching before vantage, including one unit pulled partway out to show the removable design.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare mount site
• After photo of the mounted, loaded frame
• Photo confirming a nesting unit releases from the frame by hand, without tools
• Install date and nesting-unit type/tunnel diameter recorded
• Confirmation no unit was drilled directly into the frame as a fixed, non-removable block

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.