Mason bees

This has been a fascination of mine for the last few years, Mason Bees - How to Raise Your Own! As our planet is ever-changing with the...

Mason bees are the underappreciated type of bee that can help your garden grow. Here's how to welcome these bees on your homestead.

You got your mason bee house, put the tubes in, and found the perfect location for it. Now what? Now is the best part – it’s time for the bees! At this point, you can try to attract some mason bees to the house, or you can order mason bee cocoons. If you order cocoons, like I did, you need to know when to release mason bees. To release mason bees means to place them in the bee house. This needs to be done at the right time, under the right conditions.

Easy to raise, Mason Bees are ultra-gentle uber-pollinators that will improve the health of your flowers, fruit crops, and garden.

Mason Bees are a very important aspect of our ecosystem as they can help control the insect population very easily. They are highly adapted to agriculture and can do wonders for your garden. They t…

Plenty of myths surround the keeping of bees, whether they are mason bees or honey bees. Here are six of the most commonly heard myths about mason bees.

It is National Pollinator Week , and I figured a way to commemorate this was to build a mason bee nest box (more on this in a little bit)....

A brood box and super doing duty as a mason bee emergence box. Once all the mason bees emerge, the boxes can go back in the apiary. © Rusty Burlew.

Mason Bee There are several kinds of bees, The one I love to see, attract and even live in my yard is the Mason bee. Mason bees are