
Mason BeesBlog


How to Harvest, Wash, and Store Mason Bee Cocoons
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How to Get Rid of Predators in Your Mason Bee Hotel
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You're Invited: Annual Mason Bee Block Party & Mini-Harvest
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Learn How to Return Your Nesting Blocks in September!
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Jim's Garden in Indianapolis
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Oregon State University's Guide to Nurturing Mason Bees
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How to Build Healthy Solitary Bee Hotels & Nesting Blocks
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Bee Care: What's Next for Your Bees? End of May Update
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Inside the Houdini Fly Research Project
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TV Crew Visits Oregon Research Cages
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How to Care for Blue Orchard Bees and Stop Houdini Flies
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Invasive Houdini Fly Spreading Across North America
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Mason Bee Nose Best! Where Did My Mason Bees Go?
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How to Examine Cocoons
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Rent Mason Bees on KING5 News
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3 Million Clean Mason Bee Cocoons for Spring
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Bee House Makeover: Mud Plugs, Never Cleaned
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3 Million Mason Bee Cocoons Ready for Spring
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How to Host Solitary Bees & Keep Them Healthy
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Bee House Makeover: Mold and Predators
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How to Hang a Bee House
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Join Us This Spring at Our Mason bee Events
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Rescue Cocoons If You Missed Fall
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Complete Guide to Hosting Mason Bees!
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For the Love of Mason Bees on Cultivating Place
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12 Native Flowers to Plant Now to Feed Pollinators
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Grow More Fruit with Mason Bees!
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’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the yard,
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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
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Introducing the BEE SHIELD for Cardboard Tubes
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Dimensions of Our Bee Supplies!
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Mason Bee Education Kit for Classrooms
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Free Teaching Tools for Mason Bee Lessons
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A Mason Bee Teaching Story You'll Love!
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New Videos! UC Davis Bee Lab Series
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What We Learned from Backyard Mason Bee Hosts
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Houdini Fly Update + How to Clean Your Cocoons
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Houdini Fly Update: Where They Are, Future Research
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Mono Wasp: Learn How to Protect Your Mason Bees
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Largest Solitary Bee Rental and Conservation Program
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Fall Cleaning & Maintenance Tips for Mason Bee Hotels
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Live in the Lab- UC Davis Bee Lab with Abigail Lehner
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Watch How We Clean 3 Million Mason Bee Cocoons
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Learn How to Clean & Harvest Your Own Mason Bees
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Mason Bee Cleaning Supplies for Less Than $10
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Is your bee house empty?
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Video Part 2: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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Video Part 1: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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Safe Gardening Tips for Pollinators
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What's Next for Your Bees?
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Houdini Fly Update! High report of Houdini! Learn Where
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Buzzing into May - Steps for Mason Bees!
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Meet Our Bee Team!
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How to Report a Houdini Fly in a Nesting Block
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Why Bamboo & Drilled Logs Harm Mason Bees
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It's the First Day of Spring!
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6 Unique Things to Experience in Bothell, WA
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How to Use Mason Bees to Boost Fruit Tree Pollination!
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Dandelions Are First to Bloom and Feed Spring Bees
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Garden Tip - What to Plant in Spring to Feed Your Bees!
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Spring Steps for a Healthy Mason Bee Habitat: Easy Guide!
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How to Get Kids Involved with Mason Bees: Hold a "Baby Bee"!
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Welcome Spring Mason Bees into Your Yard
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New Partner - City Fruit
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Mason Bee Hotels Require Fall Maintenance - Learn How!
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Mason Bee Hotels Require Fall Maintenance
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What to Plant in Fall for Spring Mason Bees
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Learn How to Ship Nesting Blocks Back in September
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Year-Round Care for a Mason Bee House
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Research Study on Pollen Mites by UC Riverside
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Pollen Mites in Nesting Chambers and on a Mason Bee
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Part 3: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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Mason Bee Rescue - Transition bees from harmful bamboo
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Learn How to Harvest and Clean Mason Bee Cocoons
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When to Remove Mason Bees
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Safe Gardening Tips- Slugs, Earwigs, Ants, Mosquitos
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How to Check Your Bees & Open Cocoons
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Learn What to Plant for Pollinators
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Welcome to Spring!
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How to Provide a Healthy Habitat for Mason Bees
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Protecting Our Pollinators - How to Support Solitary Bees
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Creating a buzz: Local bee enthusiasts looking toward spring
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Where Do Mason Bees Live?
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Pollinators at Work Sign
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A Guide to Getting Your Bee Hotel Ready for Mason Bees!
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How to Plant a Pollinator Garden
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Pre-Order Your Bees for 2024
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Neglected Bee Hotels Pose a Threat to Mason Bee Populations
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Predator Alert! Haunted Bee House
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Autumn Brings a Buzz: Bothell's Rent Mason Bees team cleans
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Life Cycle of a Mason Bee and How You Can Make an Impact
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Newsletter - Let's Check on Your Mason Bee Babies!
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Newsletter - Stages of Mason Bee Development
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Mrs. Smith's Science Class Studies Mason Bees & Pollen Mites
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New Discoveries Inside a Mason Bee Nesting Block
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Check Your Cocoons for Mono Wasps
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Mason Bees Up Close & None Came Back to My Block. Why?
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Newsletter - When to remove mason block, protect from mono
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When to Swap Mason Block and Release Leafcutter Bees
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Mason Bee Mud Plugs
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Newsletter - It's Time to Release Bees
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Once Bees Have Emerged What Will Happen?
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How to deter birds and paper wasps
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Want a buzz in your backyard?
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Blue Orchard and Hornfaced Mason Bees
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14 Must Have Items for Those with a Green Thumb
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National Gardening Day - Plant Heather to Feed Bees!
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Why We Need Solitary Pollinator Bees
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Bee Research - UC Davis Bee Lab
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Top Tips to Get You Ready for Your Mason and Leafcutter Bees
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Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
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Haunted Bee House -See what predators lurk inside
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How to Transition Old Nesting Material to Healthy Nests
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How to Make a Clay/Mud Hole for Mason Bees
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Mason Bees Don't Chew Wood… Those are the Carpenter Bees
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Press Release - Solitary Bees for Your Backyard Garden
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Top Gifts for Gardeners
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How 'Rented' Solitary Bees Can Help Your Garden
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Tribute to Mason Bees!
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Predator: Mono Wasp! Learn how to protect your bees
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Learn How to Safely Store Mason Bees over Summer
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Look Inside a Mason Bee Nesting Block
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Newsletter - Learn When to Swap Mason and Leafcutter Blocks
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Mono Wasps Inside Mason Bee Cocoon
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How to Prevent Birds from Eating Your Mason Bees
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Guest Speaker for Sound Waters University
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The Birds & the Bees Talk
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Over 160,000 Native Blue Orchard Mason Bees Released
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Learn How Mason Bees Help Your Yard and Our Planet
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Cold Temperatures in Spring! What About My Bees?
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Mason Bee Predator Research - Pollen Mites & Chalkbrood
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How to Host Solitary Bees "Mother Earth News & Friends"
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Spring is Here! It's Mason Bee Time!
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Newsletter - How to Host Mason & Leafcutter Bees
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What is in your kit and how to set it up
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Newsletter - Top Tips on Hosting Solitary Bees!
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Everything you need to know to host mason
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Backyard Solitary Bees
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How to Attract and Host Mason Bees
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A Year with Mason Bees
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Gift the Gift of Pollination!
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Mason Bee Cocoons
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Mason Bee Fall Harvest
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The inside of mason and leafcutter blocks
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Mason Bees- Why No Holes or Few Holes Plugged?
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Tribute to Mason Bee Lovers!
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Friendly Bees Busy at Work
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What are your mason bees doing?
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Learn About Non-Stinging, Belly Flopping Mason Bees
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Teach Kids About Mason Bees!
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Bees- Make it Personal by Teaching Kids About Pollinators
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Did You Know? - How many eggs mason bees lay?
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Mason Bee Predators -Why You Need to Clean Your Cocoons
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Keeping Mason Bees: 10 Expert Beekeeping Tips for Families
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Did You Know? When are mason bees active?
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Mason Bees Promote Food Security & Conservation
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Bridge Street Morning Show
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Mason Bee Host Story - My introduction to mason bees
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Happy Valentine's Day!
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How we safely ship mason bees
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Order Healthy Mason Bees for Spring Yards
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Mason Bee Houses - Why black houses help mason bees?
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Fascinating Video on Mason Bees - Pbs Digital Studios
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A Bee Rental Program for Gardeners and Farmers
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Mason bees are a great gift to give this holiday!
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Did You Know Mason Bee Cocoons are Waterproof?
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