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Bee CareBlog

October 14, 2026
How to Store Mason Bee Cocoons over Winter
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October 13, 2026
Mason Bee Fall Harvest: What to Do With Harvest Debris & Predators
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September 29, 2026
How to Harvest, Wash, and Store Mason Bee Cocoons
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September 18, 2026
How to Get Rid of Predators in Your Mason Bee Hotel
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September 17, 2026
3 Mason Bee Predators Every Host Should Know
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September 17, 2026
Learn What Mono Wasps Look Like in Mason Bee Nest
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September 17, 2026
Learn What Houdini Flies Look Like in Mason Bee Nest
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September 17, 2026
Learn What Chalkbrood Looks Like in Mason Bee Nest
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September 17, 2026
Learn What Pollen Mites Look Like in a Mason Bee Nest
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September 1, 2026
Are Your Leafcutter Bees Still Active?
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August 31, 2026
Learn How to Return Your Nesting Blocks in September!
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July 25, 2026
Meet the Wasp That Hunts Crickets & Nests in Your Bee Hotel
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June 23, 2026
Oregon State University's Guide to Nurturing Mason Bees
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June 11, 2026
How to Build Healthy Solitary Bee Hotels & Nesting Blocks
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May 22, 2026
Bee Care: What's Next for Your Bees? End of May Update
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May 16, 2026
Your Summer Pollinator: Leafcutter Bee Guide!
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May 5, 2026
How to Care for Blue Orchard Bees and Stop Houdini Flies
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April 22, 2026
Invasive Houdini Fly Spreading Across North America
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April 15, 2026
Mason Bee Nose Best! Where Did My Mason Bees Go?
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April 15, 2026
How to Examine Cocoons
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March 27, 2026
Bee House Makeover: Mud Plugs, Never Cleaned
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March 27, 2026
How to Host Solitary Bees & Keep Them Healthy
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March 25, 2026
Bee House Makeover: Mold and Predators
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March 15, 2026
Mason Bees Need Mud: 3 Easy Ways to Provide It
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March 2, 2026
How to Hang a Bee House
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February 26, 2026
Rescue Cocoons If You Missed Fall
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February 25, 2026
Complete Guide to Hosting Mason Bees!
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November 14, 2025
Houdini Fly Update + How to Clean Your Cocoons
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November 14, 2025
Houdini Fly Update: Where They Are, Future Research
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November 13, 2025
Mono Wasp: Learn How to Protect Your Mason Bees
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October 24, 2025
3 Million Cocoons Cleaned so You Can Release Healthy Bees
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October 20, 2025
Fall Cleaning & Maintenance Tips for Mason Bee Hotels
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October 6, 2025
Watch How We Clean 3 Million Mason Bee Cocoons
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September 20, 2025
Learn How to Clean & Harvest Your Own Mason Bees
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September 20, 2025
Mason Bee Cleaning Supplies for Less Than $10
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September 11, 2025
Is your bee house empty?
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July 7, 2025
What Voltinism Means for Mason and Leafcutter Bees
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June 29, 2025
It's Time to Put Your Leafcutter Bees Out! Learn How
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June 29, 2025
Video Part 2: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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June 20, 2025
When will your leafcutter bees emerge?
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June 13, 2025
Video Part 1: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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May 22, 2025
What's Next for Your Bees?
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May 9, 2025
Houdini Fly Update! High report of Houdini! Learn Where
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May 9, 2025
Protect Mason Bees over the Summer
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May 2, 2025
Buzzing into May - Steps for Mason Bees!
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April 21, 2025
Safe Gardening Tip - How to Remove Ants from Your Bee House
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April 21, 2025
How to Report a Houdini Fly in a Nesting Block
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March 26, 2025
Why Bamboo & Drilled Logs Harm Mason Bees
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March 17, 2025
How to Use Mason Bees to Boost Fruit Tree Pollination!
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February 19, 2025
Spring Steps for a Healthy Mason Bee Habitat: Easy Guide!
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February 4, 2025
Welcome Spring Mason Bees into Your Yard
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November 14, 2024
Mason Bee Hotels Require Fall Maintenance - Learn How!
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November 12, 2024
Mason Bee Hotels Require Fall Maintenance
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October 24, 2024
News & Radio - The Dirty Work of Owning Mason Bees
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September 1, 2024
Learn How to Ship Nesting Blocks Back in September
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August 20, 2024
Year-Round Care for a Mason Bee House
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August 14, 2024
Leafcutter Bees and Whether Yours Will Emerge
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August 9, 2024
Pollen Mites in Nesting Chambers and on a Mason Bee
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July 30, 2024
Part 3: What Are Your Baby Bees Doing?
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June 24, 2024
Part 2 "What are your baby bees doing?"
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June 21, 2024
Mason Bee Rescue - Transition bees from harmful bamboo
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June 17, 2024
Part 1 - What are your baby bees doing?
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June 11, 2024
Learn How to Harvest and Clean Mason Bee Cocoons
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May 22, 2024
When to Remove Mason Bees
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May 7, 2024
How to Check Your Bees & Open Cocoons
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May 2, 2024
Mason Bee Predator Alert - Invasive Houdini Fly
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March 20, 2024
How to remove earwigs from your garden and bee house
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March 8, 2024
How to Provide a Healthy Habitat for Mason Bees
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March 6, 2024
Protecting Our Pollinators - How to Support Solitary Bees
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January 24, 2024
A Guide to Getting Your Bee Hotel Ready for Mason Bees!
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November 2, 2023
Neglected Bee Hotels Pose a Threat to Mason Bee Populations
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October 31, 2023
Predator Alert! Haunted Bee House
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August 16, 2023
Newsletter - GrandbaBEES: Leafcutter Bees Full Block or No
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July 25, 2023
Newsletter - Let's Check on Your Mason Bee Babies!
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June 17, 2023
Newsletter - Stages of Mason Bee Development
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June 14, 2023
New Discoveries Inside a Mason Bee Nesting Block
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June 1, 2023
Newsletter - Sharing our love of mason bees with you
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May 22, 2023
Check Your Cocoons for Mono Wasps
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May 22, 2023
Mason Bees Up Close & None Came Back to My Block. Why?
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May 20, 2023
Newsletter - When to remove mason block, protect from mono
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May 19, 2023
When to Swap Mason Block and Release Leafcutter Bees
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May 15, 2023
Teach Your Neighbors About Solitary Bees
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May 12, 2023
Mason Bee Mud Plugs
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May 6, 2023
Newsletter - It's Time to Release Bees
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May 1, 2023
Once Bees Have Emerged What Will Happen?
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April 30, 2023
How to deter birds and paper wasps
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March 13, 2023
Why We Need Solitary Pollinator Bees
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March 2, 2023
Top Tips to Get You Ready for Your Mason and Leafcutter Bees
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February 27, 2023
Learn How to Set Up Your Mason Bee Starter Kit
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February 25, 2023
Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
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February 25, 2023
Haunted Bee House -See what predators lurk inside
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January 24, 2023
How to Transition Old Nesting Material to Healthy Nests
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January 22, 2023
How to Make a Clay/Mud Hole for Mason Bees
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September 13, 2022
Newsletter - It's Time to Return Your Nesting Blocks
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July 15, 2022
Watch all 3 Videos to see how baby mason bees grow
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July 7, 2022
Predator: Mono Wasp! Learn how to protect your bees
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June 22, 2022
Learn How to Safely Store Mason Bees over Summer
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June 1, 2022
Look Inside a Mason Bee Nesting Block
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May 27, 2022
Newsletter - Learn When to Swap Mason and Leafcutter Blocks
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May 20, 2022
Mono Wasps Inside Mason Bee Cocoon
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May 20, 2022
How to Prevent Birds from Eating Your Mason Bees
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May 19, 2022
Newsletter - How to Care for Your Mason Bees
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May 6, 2022
Where are my mason bees and why are no holes plugged?
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April 20, 2022
Cold Temperatures in Spring! What About My Bees?
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March 30, 2022
Mason Bee Predator Research - Pollen Mites & Chalkbrood
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March 28, 2022
How to Host Solitary Bees "Mother Earth News & Friends"
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March 15, 2022
Newsletter - How to Host Mason & Leafcutter Bees
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March 15, 2022
What is in your kit and how to set it up
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March 8, 2022
Newsletter - Top Tips on Hosting Solitary Bees!
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February 16, 2022
Everything you need to know to host mason
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January 23, 2022
Leafcutter Bee Harvest
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January 15, 2022
How to Attract and Host Mason Bees
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December 31, 2021
A Year with Mason Bees
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October 19, 2021
Mason Bee Cocoons
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October 15, 2021
Mason Bee Fall Harvest
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October 2, 2021
The inside of mason and leafcutter blocks
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July 23, 2021
Leafcutter Bee Predator Alert - Kleptoparasitic Wasps
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July 23, 2021
Mason Bees- Why No Holes or Few Holes Plugged?
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July 12, 2021
Part 3 - What are your baby bees doing?
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May 10, 2021
End of Mason Bee Season
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April 11, 2021
What are your mason bees doing?
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March 26, 2021
Unpacking Your Kit & How to Hang Your Mason Bee House
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March 5, 2021
Mason Bee Predators -Why You Need to Clean Your Cocoons
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March 4, 2021
Keeping Mason Bees: 10 Expert Beekeeping Tips for Families
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March 2, 2021
Did You Know? When are mason bees active?
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February 10, 2021
Mason Bee Houses - Why black houses help mason bees?
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January 17, 2021
Protect the Health of Solitary Bees
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October 30, 2020
We Remove Predators and Return Healthy Bees
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May 22, 2020
Learn how to Store & Return Your Mason Bee Nesting Block
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May 7, 2020
Houdini Fly Update
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May 4, 2020
Predator Alert - Invasive Houdini Fly
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January 3, 2019
Did You Know Mason Bee Cocoons are Waterproof?
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November 29, 2018
Mason Bee Cleaning Process
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November 1, 2018
Mason Bee Cleaning
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October 18, 2017
Picture of the mason bee cleaning process
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