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Refill Leafcutter Bees

You already have the black house and just need a clean block and leafcutter bees.

Already have a bee house? This refill includes your leafcutter bees, a clean nesting block and fall maintenance.
Perfect for returning hosts or anyone who already has an outer bee house. Your refill arrives for summer with everything you need to host leafcutter bees for the season. Leafcutter bees work summer vegetables and late bloom, later than mason bees.

Kit:
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Choose how hands-on you want to be.

Leafcutter bee cocoons in leaf sleeping bags

Easiest option

WE CLEAN You host. We do the rest. Enjoy your leafcutter bees and return your filled nesting block to us at the end of the season.

Services:

  • Open and inspect nesting materials
  • Remove pests and parasites
  • Care for developing bees
  • Provide proper winter storage
Filled leafcutter nesting block with leaf cells in the grooves

Most hands-on

YOU CLEAN You host. You care for your bees. For gardeners who want to manage and store their own leafcutter bees each year.

Experiences:

  • Open and inspect your nesting materials
  • Remove and care for leaf cells
  • Prepare clean nesting materials
  • Store your bees for winter
  • Release the next generation in summer

Upgrade with Mason Bees

Grow More Veggies with Leafcutter Bees!

Leafcutter bees are powerful summer pollinators, active when many vegetable gardens are bursting with flowers. As they move from bloom to bloom collecting pollen on their bellies, they transfer pollen between flowers, helping plants produce more successfully pollinated fruits and vegetables. Better pollination can mean a bigger, more productive summer harvest.

Tiny Bees. Big Summer Pollination Power.

Leafcutter bees are tiny, about the size of a watermelon seed, but they’re powerful summer pollinators. They carry loose pollen on their bellies, pollinating up to 95% of the flowers they visit. Their small size lets them reach even the tiniest blooms, helping your garden produce more flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Summer Leafcutter Bee Starter Kit

Kit Includes

  • A leafcutter nesting block filled with 60+ leafcutter bees
  • A return label for easy end-of-season return

Bee house is not included.

When They Emerge & How to Set Up

Setting up your leafcutter bees is easy! Place your bee house in a warm, sunny location, add clean nesting materials, and set out your cocoons when summer temperatures are consistently warm. Leafcutter bees typically begin emerging after several weeks of temperatures around 75°F or warmer, just as summer gardens are coming into bloom. Watch our step-by-step video below to see exactly how to set up and release your leafcutter bees.

Where we can ship

United States only. We do not ship to Canada. No live bees to HI, WY.

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