This is one of my favorite flowers!  Dandelions are a welcome color in the spring…

Update 31 July 2017.  Thanks Kathy (Langley, BC). These photos are awesome pictures of  bumblebees…

 Summer mason bees removed from their Quicklock-Corn nesting tunnels. This bee uses masticated leaf…

Quite a few new mason bee enthusiasts have asked me about nest location. The best…

This nesting tray contains 5 nesting tunnels.  The upper nesting tunnel contains cocoons with a mud partition…

Scoop tool Scoops are modified screwdrivers and are a boon to harvesting cocoons. The angle…

Small and large release box  with piano hinged lids Small release box with simple lid.…

Since the beginning of this blog (Dec 12th of 2010) people have visited from 19…

Note escape hole of box in foreground and the escape hole in the adjacent box.…

Hi Margriet: Here’s a couple of pics I took today. The umbrella had been hanging on…