Invite ALL bees Honey bees are not the only insects that benefit from bee-friendly flowers. Many other pollinators enjoy a diverse selection of blooming plants. Bumblebees, mason bees, and butterflies ...

Plant clover and catmint to encourage them into your garden. Red mason bees need a box filled with hollow pipes, such as cut lengths of bamboo. They lay their eggs one at a time with a supply of ...

Parkview's wide variety of bees are staying busy into August as more native plants bloom. The duo initially planned to build a house just for native mason bees. The project morphed into a pollinator ...

Many are active as adults for only a short time each year and pollinate a narrow range of plants (Bosch & Kemp 2004). For example, the mason bees (~ 130 species in North America) pollinate ...

Mason bees use mud in nest construction and are active mostly in ... The colours indicate pollinator type, and each bar is for a different plant. These "top-25" lists show which plants had really high ...

Blue calamintha bees — These metallic blue mason bees rely entirely on two rare flowers found in central Florida’s fragile sand pine scrub ecosystems. Habitat loss to agricultural, commercial and ...