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Establishing a Successful Bee Garden
The right flowers, fruit, and vegetables in your garden will attract some of your own bees, as well as welcoming bumblebee and solitary bee species.
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Garden Plan for Pollinators
Design choices, plant selections, and maintenance practices can make a huge difference in creating your own healthy ecosystem.
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Can I Make Mason Bee Homes out of Bamboo?
I want to make mason bee homes. I plan to try drilling a wood block, but also try bamboo. Since moisture is an issue with bamboo, has anyone tried drying the bamboo out in a low temp oven? Do they have suggestions about how long and at what temperature to dry the bamboo?
Read MoreWhen Can I Safely Clean Out my Mason Bee Tubes?
In order to care for your mason bees, you need to have some idea when the tubes were filled and capped. If it was in a prior year, the bees inside are most likely dead, so you can discard the tubes and start with a fresh set next year.
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What’s Bothering My Mason Bees?
The parasitic wasp genus Monodontomerus shows up just as the mason bee season is coming to a close. The wasps are very tiny, perhaps fruit fly size, and fly with a nervous, side-to-side pattern that makes them look guilty.
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