Gardening

The bees are loving this warm weather, not to mention all the flowers in bloom!

Bee update. The nesting tubes are filling up! Each one will have 6-8 eggs, which will eventually hatch, become larvae, then pupae, which will build cocoons and transform
Into next years’ bees.

Check out at the little bees resting, waiting for it to warm up a bit more before doing their thing. 🐝

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Yes! Would love to see some progress pics!

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I think so too! It’s cool seeing them around the yard.

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Thank you! Mason bees are excellent early pollinators, and they seem pretty happy in our year, where there is an abundance of native flowering plants and fruit trees nearby.

Shout out to the pollinators 

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That is one of the primary reasons I do it!

Very cool, would love to do this at some point.  We're losing pollinators at an alarming rate, It's very concerning.

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I have a healthy respect (and sometimes fear) of most animals and insects. Mason bees are pretty docile and in the 6-7 years I’ve been raising them, no one in my household has been stung, despite them being located in our backyard where we spend a lot of time, especially in the summers.

Love this. I have a bad personal relationship w bees. Been stung too many times and allergic. But I still love them and appreciate the keepers.

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No. I'm not harvesting honey or anything, so I mainly just observe them until it's time to collect the cocoons (at which points all the bees have probably flown off to die). And mason bees are known for being very docile, and since they don't have a hive or queen they are protecting, they really don't have a reason to sting.

There is a little wooden drawer that you drop the cocoons into at the beginning of Spring. I think when they hatch they just realize that they have the resources they need there, so most of them just return. Some will go lay eggs other places, I’m sure.

We haven’t had an issue with other insects (other than spiders). Sometimes when you peel the tubes in the fall, you’ll find little maggots, so flies or some other insect must also lay eggs on occasion.

did they choose to set up their home there? how did you not attract some other insect you didn't want?

Terrified of bees 🐝 

Can’t go near one, haven’t been stung before but I’m just careful and not so curious

Thanks for the tip. It's crazy how many tubes they filled. Last year there were less than this by the end, and they'll probably still be buzzing around for a few weeks!