Want Pollination Without the Hassle of Cleaning? Many enjoy raising and cleaning their own mason bees, and we offer step-by-step videos on our YouTube channel to guide you. If you love the ...

“The mason bee just belly flops into each flower,” says Dave Hunter, who runs the mason bee resource Crown Bees in Woodinville. Hunter says raising mason bees is generally less expensive and time ...

Raise mason bees (spring) or leafcutter bees (summer)—it’s easy and fun! Host crafty solitary bee box-building garden parties or even cocoon-unwrapping parties in the fall. Once you start with ...

I certainly could see some doing that, for sure.” One alternative is to raise mason bees, aka blue orchard bees. They’re native, gentle, stingerless, practically zero maintenance, and ...

Join the Hunt for Houdini Flies! BOTHELL, Wash., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --Rent Mason Bees, the nation's largest solitary bee provider, has partnered with researchers at the University of ...

Gardeners love mason bees, the nonaggressive, super-pollinator cousins of the honeybee. It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards ...

(In fact, the USDA named the mason bee a "pollinator-of-the-month.") But farmers still rely on the honeybee, in part because these bees live in large hives that can be picked up and moved to ...

BOTHELL, Wash., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As winter thaws and temperatures rise, mason bees will soon emerge! Once temps reach 55°F+, these essential pollinators wake from hibernation ...

BOTHELL, Wash., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As winter thaws and temperatures rise, mason bees will soon emerge! Once temps reach 55°F+, these essential pollinators wake from hibernation, ready to ...