If you’re going to make your own mason bee house, Purrington offers his own tutorial here, along with a slew of additional reading you can take advantage of. If you’re leaning toward a store-b ...

SPRING: Steps for a Healthy Habitat Place NEW nesting material out at the beginning of Spring – Mason bee houses are not year-round homes! Replace with new or cleaned nesting material at the ...

But poorly made mason bee houses and well-meaning but uninformed gardeners are providing a smorgasbord for invasive Houdini flies, mason bee expert Dave Hunter said. “Now that humans are here ...

Fall brings autumn leaves, pumpkin patches, and the annual cleaning of bee cocoons? At least that’s the case at Rent Mason Bees in Bothell ... You keep the black house and the following year ...

Mason bees don’t build hives, so people can give them a hand by adding houses suited just for them. The group started tracking bee cocoons in 2016. That year, they counted more than 700 in six ...