With honeybees in decline, mason bees eyed for duty The brand-new posthole digger made barely a dent in the ground outside the strawberry patch. Necessity being the mother of substitution, Lisa Horth abandoned the tool and instead used a hatchet to whack a hole in the turf deep enough to plant the wooden post of a bee house. ///
April 22, 2014 - The Virginian-Pilot