Orchard mason bees

Started by Understudy, March 03, 2007, 11:28:36 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Understudy

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nwgardens/305592_smith03.html

what bees were like before honeybees came along.

sincerely,
Brendhan
The status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it. Dr. Horrible

Michael Bush

They still are.  They are all over my pear trees every year.
My website:  bushfarms.com/bees.htm en espanol: bushfarms.com/es_bees.htm  auf deutsche: bushfarms.com/de_bees.htm  em portugues:  bushfarms.com/pt_bees.htm
My book:  ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
-------------------
"Everything works if you let it."--James "Big Boy" Medlin

Mici

making home for bees like these for the past few days! i'll post a pic or two in the next week.
did a little research, around here there are around 500 species of mason/carpenter bees, so...there still are, let's help 'em

Kathyp

my husband "keeps" mason bees.  he has for years.  his beekeeping consists of drilling holes in log halfs and nailing them to the back wall.  he started keeping them when he started growing fruit trees.
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

Apis629

Would you consider that to be more along the lines of beeHAVING as opposed to beeKEEPING?  Is he actually manipulating them like we do honeybees?

Mici

you can't manipulate them, all you can do is give them suitable housings and clean those yearly.

beehaving is the same as beekeeping, the bee-breeding is the thing that stands out.