Jim wrote: "I've been quietly fabricating and burying bumblebee boxes 
for years under hunks of slate to protect them from being crushed and 
mark their locations."

And are you going to post the design of these boxes so that more of us 
can play this game?  Here in the UK bumble bee nests seem to be a 
favourite food of badgers.

Chris




  

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