What is the smallest opening?

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What is the smallest opening?

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What's the smallest opening a forager bee could crawl through? I'm thinking about making an external feeder, but I don't want to feed the whole neighborhood.
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1/6 or 1/7 inch hardware cloth.
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Wow! That's less than 3/16ths of an inch!
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