Mason Bees
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Sorry we are sold out for this season.
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Beediverse mason bees are packaged in small cardboard packages. One box contains 20 cocoons + a few extra. One set is usually sufficient to start your mason bee colony. If you would like to see them flying around or need better pollination, order 2 or more sets of cocoons. The box of cocoons fits neatly into all our Beediverse mason bee homes.
*If you have an excess number of nesting tubes/straws with mason bees or mason bee cocoons that you have harvested out of nests, and would like to have these bees distributed to other enthusiastic gardeners, please contact us for details.
723.04 Spring Mason Bee cocoons -Osmia lignaria
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Sorry, we are sold out for the season.
If you like, order and pay now and bees will be shipped early November, 2012 ready for next spring.
Includes 20 cocoons, 10 per package.
The Spring Mason Bee Osmia lignaria, is a friendly early spring pollinator. It emerges when tree fruit blossoms and blueberry blossoms are open early and mid spring.
As an alternative, buy mason bee cocoons from your local garden or backyard wild bird store. Go to our “Find the store closest to you’ widget on our home page. Or set out one of the Beediverse mason bee homes in your area.
**If you have an excess of mason bee cocoons and would like to have these bees distributed to other enthusiastic gardeners- please contact us for details. Your excess mason bee cocoons will not go to waste!
733.04 Late Spring Mason Bee Cocoons -Osmia californica
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Osmia californica Sorry we are SOLD OUT for the season.
You are welcome to order and pay now, and your order will be shipped early November of this year.
is a mason bees that is active towards the end of spring overlapping with Osmia lignaria for about 2 weeks.
The Californica bee is blue black in colour and uses the same nesting holes as the early spring mason bee.
Their cocoons are covered in red frass (fecal pellets).
The timing of Osmia californica activity is perfect for pollinating blueberry and raspberry flowers.
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