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Mason Bee Complete Care Kit
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| This kit contains everything needed for keeping Mason Bees. Perfect for the novice bee rancher who wants to support these hardworking native pollinators, the kit makes being a bee helper simple and straightforward. Get started today and make a difference. The kit includes a starter cottage, book, poster, and 20 bees.
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$ 49.95 CA |
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| This nice cedar house provides a long lasting shelter for 30 bees. The stack of 5 nesting trays provides nesting holes. The space above the trays can be used to place hibernating cocoons over the winter to encourage their safe emergence in the next pollinating season. Comes with a predator guard.
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$ 39.95 CA |
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Mason Bee Lifecycle Poster
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| This laminated poster is ready to hang up in your workshop area as a reminder of what to do and when for successful management of your Mason Bees through the four seasons. All your questions, answered on one papge!
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$ 4.55 CA |
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Mason Bee Starter Cottage
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| The starter cottage contaians 20 nesting straws for 20 females. Early in the spring wild mason bees search for nest sites such as the Starter Cottage. Mason bees can also be bought and placed inside the Starter Cottage by creating space and removing 1 or 2 straws.
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$ 14.95 CA |
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| Cardboard nesting tubes are attractive to mason bees and are a good way of starting with Mason Bees. The 35 Beediverse tubes are closed at one end and are ready for use. Make it easy for bees to find their home by creating a pattern with the yellow nesting tubes. Set tubes into a dark water-proof container to protect them from rain and direct sun. Fix container onto a sunny wall of a house or shed before spring blossoms are in bloom. When wild mason bees are in the vincinity they search for suitable nesting holes such as cardboard nesting tubes or nesting holes created from stacked routered trays (see the Beediverse STS tray system). Yellow tubes help bees orient to the nest. Tubes are a one-time use nest. Once the bee uses the tube as a nest, dirt parasites decreases livablity of the straw. Unoccupied tubes are re-useable. In the fall (Oct-Dec) unfurl tubes, gather, wash and store hibernating mason bee cocoons.
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$ 0.00 CA |
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Pollination with Mason Bees
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by Dr. Margriet Dogterom
Carefully written and with great line illustsration, this book is a fantastic introduction for gardeners and naturalists to the useful little bees. This step-by-step guide walks you through how to look after them, to choose nest types, and to watch their comings and goings.
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$ 12.95 CA |
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| These plastic trays are interlocking and long lasting. Easy to assemble and clean, you can create your own shelter design (try a birdhouse look or a pipe) to protect the trays from weather. Set the stack of trays horizontally into a dark container 5-8cm (2-3") deeper than the 15cm (6") trays. One set provides 30 nesting sites.
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$ 19.95 CA |
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| This SCOOP is the perfect tool to remove mason bee cocoons from their nesting tunnels. The curve of the SCOOP is set to maximize ease of use and minimize damage to cocoons. Mason bee cocoons are harvested from nests in October to December. Directions: Open the beediverse Nesting Trays and set on a flat surface. Each nesting tunnel contains the smaller male cocoons at the front of the nest and female cocoons at the back. Hold SCOOP at a 33 degree angle with the pointed end of scoop at base of nesting tunnel. Gently push and lift SCOOP to ease mason bee cocoons out of each tunnel and push towards the back.
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