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[Anduril]

Willy the beeman...you are extracting the micturation.

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[Poly Hive]

Honey bees do indeed tunnel soft material if they can.

Surely the more experienced have come across this?

PH

 

[Anduril]

Peter Guthrie covers the holes in his crownboards with cardboard from time to time and the bees burrow their way through. Also the bees have damaged my celotex where I have forgotten to cover the crownboard holes. If I had left it then they would have burrowed up to the roof.

 

[Newbeeneil]

V

I left one of the crown board holes uncovered and then placed a sheet of expanded poly on it . The bees have neatly created a cave within the poly about the size of my fist.

 

[Ian123]

Ok playing devils advocate......are they actually tunneling or gnawing on surfaces. Bees will enter a existing tree cavity and certainly gnaw on soft/exposed surfaces, but do they tunnel directly into the tree and create the entrance/cavity. Using the example above of bees enlarging an existing entrance. If my dog digs a hole in the bank hes tunneling, if he chews the leg on a chair hes gnawing.

TUNNEL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/tunnel
tunnel meaning: 1. a long passage

So are they tunneling or simply gnawing/chewing surfaces and in some instances creating a cavity/hole or enlarging existing holes/cavity because thats not tunneling


I will get my coat

 

[Poly Hive]

Semantics.

If I wanted to play with words to this extent I'd join a political party.

PH

 

[Ian123]

But....correct?

 

[drex]

I find that they make cavities into fondant and have never seen any tunnels into it. I see tunnels in poly hives but they are made by wax moth larvae

 

[Anduril]

A better term would be burrowing.

 

[Ian123]

Maybe better but still not there
https://animals.mom.me/burrowing-insect-list-6767.html

"Burrow
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Burrow (disambiguation).
A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation,"