It’s both fun and easy to make nesting blocks for mason bees, a highly useful pollinator for orchards and gardens. Although they don’t produce honey, there are several advantages to keeping mason bees. They are gentle, with stings no stronger than a mosquito bite. They are very efficient pollinators; only a few hundred are needed [...]
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MAKING MASON BEE HOMES
Posted in Food Growing Techniques, Philadelphia Food Growing, tagged bee, beekeeping, bees, garden, homemade, mason, nesting blocks, orchard, osmia, paper liner, pollination, pollinator on February 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
