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I’d been looking for ways to attract both native pollinators and pest-eating songbirds to my yard, and had the idea of making a birdhouse that also doubles as a pollinator hotel. This bird-and-the-bees house is designed to attract chickadees — the interior dimensions and opening diameter are ideal for this bird, which eats all sorts of flying insects. Unfortunately I realized after making this that chickadees aren’t selective about which insects they eat! An improvement in future designs would be to create pollinator hotel birdhouses that specifically attract non-bee-eating birds. The back of this birdhouse opens up for easy cleaning between nesting seasons, and the mason bee nesting tubes are easily replaced after they’re used up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This structure was designed in Sketchup and the parts can be mass-produced with a CNC milling machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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