Encouraging Native Bees with Insect Walls | PITH + VIGOR
image from buzzy bee girl (a great blog about bees) Bees are on the decline, particularly honey bees. Without bees and other pollinators, every gardener knows that plants just won’t do what they are meant to. This summer, I noticed in my own garden the proliferation of squash blossoms that never became zucchini and pumpkins, …
Mason Bee House • Steamy Kitchen Recipes Giveaways
I’ve always kept my distance from bees, I’ll blame it on a horror movie that I stupidly watched by myself when I was home sick from school. I’ve never been stung before, nor do I really care to purposely put myself in a situation where I might be. But uh…..colony collapse? I’m more freaked out […]
Bees in the Garden
A bee house for mason bees. These bees are solitary, meaning that each one tends to her own brood, about six to eight babies, and all each one needs is a hole the size of a pencil in a block of wood. They do not live in large hives with thousands of workers like honey bees. You can get fancy and create a handsome bee house like the one my son in law did for me. Watching the comings and goings of your little tenants can be almost as much fun as watching birds at your bird house, and there is…
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