Includes 20 cocoons in one 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.

SPECIAL offer for SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER:

-Add $6.50 to your TOTAL COST and receive a predator proof SHELTER for safely storing your cocoons over the winter

Customers from USA receive USA mason bees and Canadian customers receive mason bees from Canada.

You can also buy mason bee cocoons from your local garden or backyard wild bird store. Contact us for the retail store nearest you that carry Beediverse Mason Bee cocoons. As an alternative to buying cocoons, 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!

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions at 1800 794 2144.

Osmia californica is a mason bees that is active towards the end of the early spring mason bee Osmia lignaria activity. Sometimes their activities overlap for about 2 weeks. Californica is blue black in colour and use the same nesting holes as the early spring mason bee. Their cocoons are covered in red frass (fecal pellets).
The timing of californica will be for pollinating blueberry and raspberry flowers.