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You will save 10% off the regular price with this combination of products.

This set includes:

• POLLINATION WITH MASON BEES 2009 by Dr. Margriet Dogterom
• DVD Video ALL ABOUT MASON BEES by Dr. Margriet Dogterom
• Lifecycle Poster (8×11 inches)

Your complete resource base for Mason Bee keeping. Read the book and learn all about Mason Bee behaviour, and how to attract and keep these native pollinators in your garden. Watch the DVD – see extraordinary close-up sequences of nesting bees, and watch Dr. Dogterom’s detailed demonstrations of nest maintenance. Then keep the poster close at hand for instant reference all year round. Author Dr. Margriet Dogterom has more than 20 years apiculture experience in scholarly research and hands-on fieldwork.

Buy Pollination with Mason Bees in both print and audio CD, and save 10%

This set includes:

• Pollination with Mason Bees (print) by Dr. Margriet Dogterom and Pollination with Mason Bees Audio Book on CD, read by Dr. Margriet Dogterom

Settle in with the book, or pop in the CD and listen while you multi-task.

Pollination with Mason Bees covers:

• The Mason Bee life cycle, behaviour & habitat preferences
• What to consider whether you’re buying or building Mason Bee houses
• How to make your own Mason Bee House with simple, inexpensive materials
• How to place Mason Bee Houses for optimal light and warmth in your garden
• Best practices to maintain and increase your Mason Bee population
• Overwintering bees so your population persists from year to year
• Protecting your bees from predators, parasites and pests
• Valuable insights and practical tips from Mason Bee keepers

You can transfer the CD to your iPod or MP3 player please see the tutorial for added convenience.

Mini-Cottage + Book Combo $29.90
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An excellent kit for new Mason Bee Keepers.

This set includes:

• Mini-Cottage with 15 Cardboard Nesting Tubes 4.5 long, suitable for 15 bees & their offspring

• Pollination with Mason Bees, 2nd Edition, by Margriet Dogterom

The Mini-Cottage is ready to mount in your garden and comes with 15 cardboard nesting tunnels and a screw for fixing cottage toa a wall. All About Mason Bees is the definitive book about Mason Bees including full instructions on keeping Mason Bees. Everything you need for your first season with Mason Bees.
Mason Bee cocoons not included

Save 10% with Beediverse Combo’s A comprehensive combination of products for anyone interested in having these native pollinators in their garden.

This set includes:

• Starter Cottage & 20 Cardboard Nesting Tunnels (6 inches long).
• Accommodates up to 20 bees & their offspring
• Pollination with Mason Bees, 2nd Edition by Margriet Dogterom
• All About Mason Bees, 47 minutes by Margriet Dogterom
• Lifecycle Poster (8×11 inches)

This combo comes with a Standard Cottage ready to mount in the garden. Pollination with Mason Bees has all the background information about the bees and their propagation and finally the DVD All About Mason Bees has close-up footage of Mason Bees and detailed nest maintenance demonstrations.

You will save 10% off the regular price with this combination of products. Order while supplies last!
This Mason Bee House comes with a predator guard that will protect your bees from woodpeckers and parasitic wasps.

This set includes:

• A ROYAL HOUSE with nesting trays to
• accommodate up to 30 bees & their offspring
• Pollination with Mason Bees, 2nd Edition by Margriet Dogterom

This excellent Combo answers all your questions about mason bees. It includes – Pollination with Mason Bees by Dr. Dogterom and a Royal mason bee house ready to set out. 

The smooth-lined Royal mason bee house provides an attractive, practical and long-lasting beautiful cedar housing for your Mason Bees. Each house contains a stack of 5 nesting trays with 30 holes for 30 mason bees. The space above the nesting trays can be used to safely store your cocoons. 

With the aid of -Pollination with Mason Bees by Dr. Margriet Dogterom
(Soft cover, 5×7 1/2, 136pg. ISBN: 978-0-9689357-3-6) 

You will learn about mason bee lifecycle, how to store and wash cocoons, how to keep parasites away from your bees and much more!

Choose a predator guard with the color of your choice from the following list:

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The Royal House combo includes nesting trays made from environmentally friendly corn plastic.
Choose a predator guard with the color of your choice from the drop down box below.

Reuse the trays season after season. The Royal House accommodates a generous bee population – up to 30 females and 144 offspring. You’ll get Pollination with Mason Bees – the definitive book about Mason Bees and their propagation. The DVD All About Mason Bees has rare, close up footage of mason bee activity, and detailed demonstrations of nest maintenance. And you’ll get the Life Cycle Poster for handy reference. Everything you need to maintain a nest for moderate to large gardens.

It includes:

• Royal House & corn nesting trays for 30 females and 180 eggs
• Pollination with Mason Bees, 2nd Edition, by Margriet Dogterom
• All About Mason Bees DVD, 47 minutes, by Margriet Dogerom
• Life Cycle Poster – sturdy reference poster 

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Our complete multimedia package with our largest Mason Bee House. Accommodates enough bees for a large garden, and enough information to keep you engaged for hours.
This set includes:

• HIGHRISE High Rise with nesting trays to accommodate up to 72 bees & their offspring
• Pollination with Mason Bees, 2nd Edition by Margriet Dogterom
• All About Mason Bees DVD, 47 minutes, by Margariet Dogterum
• Live Cycle Poster – sturdy reference poster

Choose a Predator Guard in addition to your Highrise housing and protect your bees from woodpeckers and parasitic wasps. Choose from the color options below:

The High Rise includes reusable nesting trays made from environmentally friendly corn material. Pollination with Mason Bees is the definitive book about Mason Bees and their propagation.

The DVD All About Mason Bees has rare, close up footage of mason bee activity, and detailed demonstration of nest maintenance. And you’ll get the Life Cycle Poster as a handy reference.

Keeping mason bees is fun especially if you have the right tools.

Here are some tools that make keeping mason bees successful.

Includes:

• one fridge thermometer
• one harvesting and cleaning scoop
• one petri dish for storing mason bee cocoons “bee cocoons are not included”
• one emergence shelter for storing and setting out mason bee cocoons
• one net bag

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Minor defects on wood- no structural damage

Suitable for small gardens, balcony gardens new mason bee keepers.
Includes:

• Trays with 30 tunnels, suitable for up to 30 females and 180 eggs

Ready for easy viewing of bees at work.

You can hang the Lodge, or mount it on a wall of a shed or building. Then watch these busy native polinators at work in your yard or garden. An overhang at the mouth of the lodge portects the bees from rain, wind and hot sun.

The Lodge fits our Quicklock Corn Nesting trays 30. Just slide out the trays for fall cleaning, and reinsert the cleaned trays ready for spring.

Nesting trays are made from environmentally friendly corn material with colours that help bees find their nests. Each tray has 6 grooves. When paired, the trays from tunnels where Mason Bees nest and lay their eggs. In the fall, pop the trays apart, and gently slide out the cocoons with our Bee Scoop

Like all Beediverse Products, the Lodge is durable, attractive, easy-to clean, and made from sustainable resources to last many summers.

 

Outside dimensions: 21x 13 x 18.5 cm or 8.3 x 7.3 x 5.1 inches
Materials: solid wood, corn material

Corrugated wrap provides nesting cavities for the smaller summer mason bees.

Nesting cavities are 3-4mm in height and 4mm in width – perfect for the tiny summer mason bees. Corrugated wrap is easy to use and the cost is right. In the spring set roll of corrugated wrap with its nesting holes horizontal, inside a weather proof home. In the fall after summer mason bees have nested the roll of corrugated cardboard can be unrolled and cocoons can be harvested. Replace roll for next season. Dimensions of corrugated wrap 4 x 4 x 6″ (9.7 x 9.7 x 15.3cm) Hole dimension are 3-4 x 4mm

Includes four rolls of corrugated wrap.

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Ready to hang in your garden. Suitable for Small Gardens, new Mason Beekeepers
Includes:

• One Cottage
• 15 cardboard nesting tubes, 4.5 inches long
• One screw for attaching Cottage to a wall

Our Starter Cottage is “move-in ready” for Mason Bees. Mount on the sunny side of a house or garden shed and bees will soon settle in. Modest in size and price, it’s a perfect first mason bee house, great in the classroom and an ideal gift for gardeners.

The front panel removes for easy cleaning and maintenance. When in place, the panel protects bees from predating woodpeckers, mice and parasitic wasps.

Starter Cottages are used to collect mason bees from other locations. Set cottages out and when bees move in, return cottage with the new resident bees to your garden. It’s a fun and gratifying project … and you save the cost of buying cocoons.

Like all Beediverse products, the Starter Cottage is durable, attractive, easy to clean, and made from sustainable resources to last many summers.

Dimensions of Cottage: 15 x 10 x 10 cm or 6.0 x 3.9 x 3.9 inches
Materials: cardboard,wood, metal
Mason Bee cocoons not included

Ezy to set up and Ezy to harvest!

Cardboard nesting tubes are attractive to mason bees and are a good way of starting with and keeping Mason Bees. Nesting tubes are ready for spring mason bees that are looking for suitable nesting material.

DIRECTIONS: Set tubes into a dark water-proof container to protect them from rain and direct sun. Fix container onto a sunny wall of a house or shed before spring blossoms are in bloom. When wild mason bees are in the vicinity they search for suitable nesting material such as cardboard nesting tubes or nesting holes created from stackable Quicklock corn trays also available from Beediverse products.

Cardboard is 100% recyclable paper. Tubes are a one-time item. Once a mason bee uses the tube as a nest, dirt and parasites decreases the livability of the nesting tube. Unoccupied tubes are re-useable.

DIRECTIONS FOR HARVESTING COCOONS: In the fall (Oct-Dec) simply unfurl tubes, gather, wash and store hibernating mason bee cocoons. Use the Beediverse ”Bee Cocoon Shelter” to safely emerge these bees.

Includes:

• 200 Ezy-Harvest cardboard tubes closed at one end

Material: Ezy- harvest cardboard
Dimensions: standard size
length 6 inches, diameter 5/16 inch or length 15.5 cm, diameter 7.5mm