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Refill · We Clean
You already have the large house and just need a clean 96-hole block and clean cocoons.
Already have a bee house? This refill includes your bees, a clean 96-hole nesting block and fall maintenance.
Perfect for returning hosts or anyone who already has an outer bee house. Your refill arrives in early spring with everything you need to host mason bees for the season. Mason bees are gentle, highly efficient spring pollinators that are especially beneficial for fruit trees, berry bushes and other spring-blooming plants.
Two Ways to Host Bees?
Choose how hands-on you want to be.
Easiest option
Services:
Most hands-on
Experiences:
- Fall Maintenance & Cleaning of Your Cocoons and Sterilize Nesting Blocks
- A custom 96 hole mason bee nesting block
- 100+ mason bee cocoons inside two white emergence tubes
- Bee attractant added to nest block
- Return shipping label
Bee house is not included.
Mason bees are powerful spring pollinators, active when fruit trees and early spring gardens are bursting with blooms. As they move from blossom to blossom collecting loose pollen on their bellies, they spread pollen from flower to flower. Better pollination can mean more fruit from the trees you already grow.
You don’t need to be a beekeeper to host mason bees! These gentle, highly efficient spring pollinators emerge right when many fruit trees begin blooming and can pollinate up to 95% of the flowers they visit. There’s no hive, no honey and no queen to care for. Simply set up your bee house, release your bees and let them get to work. At the end of their short spring season, return your nesting block to us and we’ll take care of the harvesting, cleaning and winter care.
Simply set up your bee house, put your emergence tube on top of the nest block, remove tape from the tape covering the hole on the emergence tube and watch your bees emerge when temperatures reach 55 degrees. Watch our video for a step-by-step guide on setting up your mason bee kit.
The refills and large kits do not include clay. If your clay from last season is still in good condition, you're all set! However, if you need more, be sure to add it to your order.
At Rent Mason Bees, we make hosting mason bees easy by taking care of the fall cleaning for you. At the end of the season, keep your black shelter house and return your nesting blocks to us in September.
We harvest and clean the cocoons, remove predators like pollen mites, Houdini flies and chalkbrood, and sterilize the nesting blocks to help prevent threats from carrying into the next season. Healthy cocoons are carefully sorted and stored under proper conditions through the winter.
Come spring, healthy mason bees are ready to emerge, pollinate and begin the cycle again
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Release More Bees!
$50
Free shipping.
We Clean
Coming back for both seasons, no new house.
$99
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Clean, Healthy Mud for Mason Bees
$10
Free shipping.
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Food for Mason Bees
$10
Free shipping.
