Blog · Mason Bees · Predators · Bee Care · 2023-05-22

Check Your Cocoons for Mono Wasps

Managing Director and Global Solitary Bee Educator

Mono Wasp Inside Cocoon with Bee 1080 × 1080

It’s the end of May and mason bee season is wrapping up. This is also the time for mono wasps to start to emerge. If you’re able to, please examine your cocoons and snip the tips off the cocoons that have not emerged. If you find mono wasp, please dispose.

Frequently Bought Together

Pollinator refill with mason and leafcutter nesting blocks, emergence tube, clay, and spring mix

We Clean

Refills for Pollinator Kit

Coming back for both seasons, no new house.

$99

See details

Supplies

Chemical Free Mason Bee Mud/Clay

Clean, Healthy Mud for Mason Bees

$10

Free shipping.

See details

Mason bee nesting block with a white emergence tube

We Clean

Refills for Mason Bee Kit

You already have the black house.

$75

See details

Supplies

48-Hole Mason Bee Nesting Block

Easy to Open & Clean

$39

Free shipping.

See details

Become a Newsletter BEE-I-P

Solitary bee care changes with the seasons. Our emails help you know what to do next, from spring release through summer care, fall returns/harvest and winter preparation.