Comments on: How to Harvest Mason Bee Cocoons

By: Gail Meyer

Gail Meyer — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:16:10 +0000

Thank you for your very helpful information. I live in Zone 4 and have a small mason bee house with removable cardboard tubes. I have not addressed the tubes all summer and now it is late fall in terms of temperatures. Do I need to actually remove the cocoons from the tubes or can I just put the tubes in a paper bag in the fruit drawer section of my refrigerator and replace them in the bee house in the late spring when temps are above 50 degrees? I worry that I will do more harm than good by manipulating the cocoons.

By: Alasia

Alasia — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:15:01 +0000

What is the best way to get the tubes out of the house, they seem pretty stuck in the beehouse?

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:16:02 +0000

Regarding mason bees in the spring, you say to place the cocoons near the provided bee house. Then you say to set them on top of the tubes inside the bee house until the bees emerge. You lost me. The tube are inside the holes. I don’t think I would place cocoons in the open above the structure as they might blow away or get cold overnight. If I store them in a pill bottle, what size hole should I drill in the cap and how many cocoons can go in?

By: beverly parker

beverly parker — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:30:53 +0000

I kept the mason bee house in the garage all winter. they would not freeze
Now in May do I wash the clay out of the tubes and put the cocoons outside

By: Lauris Simon

Lauris Simon — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:36:40 +0000

Can you recommend a good mason bee house?
Thank you

By: George Madosky

George Madosky — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:55:55 +0000

Information on growing bees for high tunnel growing plants that need pollinating

Thank you so much
George