mason bee house – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:58:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 mason bee house – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 How to Harvest Mason Bee Cocoons https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-harvest-mason-bee-cocoons-zbwz1801zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-harvest-mason-bee-cocoons-zbwz1801zsau/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:06:47 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3752 There are generally two ways in which you can raise mason bees. You can go at it with a hands-off approach and let nature take its course or you can take some quick and easy additional steps to ensure a healthier mason bee population. Any help really that you’re willing to provide will be appreciated […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-harvest-mason-bee-cocoons-zbwz1801zsau/feed/ 6 All About Mason Bee Houses https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/all-about-mason-bee-houses-zbwz1712zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/all-about-mason-bee-houses-zbwz1712zsau/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:00:38 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3743 Mason bees look for tiny holes in the wild to lay their brood. Bee-friendly places might be holes bored into trees by other insects or the stems of dried reeds and other plants. Ideally, the hole should be around 8mm (around the width of a pencil) and 3-4 inches deep. The female bee will collect […]

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