On the financial front, a complete kit with nesting tubes, a bee house for the tubes, cocoons, and a book runs between $50 and $150, depending on the style and size. You can start out with a smaller ...

It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards around Clark County, where busy mason bees can lay their eggs for next spring’s generation.

As a way of introducing new mason bee populations to their yards, gardeners can purchase tubes of cocoons containing adult bees - and should do so soon. Keep them in the refrigerator until late ...

It’s important to clean or replace your nesting blocks, or to use new tubes every season, because of predatory mites and fungal diseases. But if the prospect of caring for bees year-round is ...

If you want to encourage mason bees to live in your garden, provide them with the nesting boxes they prefer. Hollow reeds, cardboard tubes, paper straws, or tunnels in wood are best.

Supplying mason bee homes is a bit like working with contractors: You buy the materials, they do the work. Without human intervention, they’d nest in hollow reeds fallen to the ground.

Supplying mason bee homes is a bit like working with contractors: You buy the materials, they do the work. Without human intervention, they’d nest in hollow reeds fallen to the ground.

My bee hotel is constructed with preservative-free dimensional lumber. The tunnels are drilled in scrap lumber, tree branches, and reed nesting tubes.

News Spokane Gardening: Native bee species more effective Thu., Jan. 30, 2020 Mason and leafcutter bees nest in cavities or tubes. Here cardboard tubes and straws are packed into a box that will ...