Every fall, Rent Mason Bees holds their annual Mason Bee Fall Harvest, where millions of rented mason bee cocoons are cleaned and prepared to be released in the spring season as healthy bees.

For mason bees, the wait for their first meal is a long one, nine months if it's a day. These solitary bees hang out in their tight cocoons waiting for the cool temperatures of early spring to ...

Rent Mason Bees’ Mason bee kits ($60) include a Mason bee house, nesting block, bag of clay, pollinator flower seeds, and 50 to 60 Mason bee cocoons sent in spring.

Homes & Gardens; With some other pollinators in decline, mason bees are garden helpers . Updated: ; Feb. 25, 2010, 6:27 a.m. | Published: ; Feb. 25, 2010, 5:27 a.m.

Rhoda Nolt, a Landis Homes resident, moves Mason bee cocoons from a pollinator nesting block, inside the woodworking shop at Landis Homes, in Manheim Township, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2023.

Mason bees are among the 4,000 types of bees native to the U.S. ... And in the fall, it's an adult bee in a cocoon that just hibernates through the winter." Hunter, ...

Hunter says that the cocoons of mason bees can be refrigerated to control their emergence. In soft-drink coolers at his Woodinville headquarters, Hunter keeps 550,000 to 600,000 bees in cocoons.

Over the year for my small yard (I started with about 50 cocoons), the total time investment was between 60 and 90 minutes total. I have baked cakes that take longer and are far more complicated than ...

Female mason bee cocoons (left) and male cocoons (right) show the female cocoon is about 50 percent bigger than the male cocoon. (Lui Kit Wong/Tacoma News Tribune) A mason bee enters a bamboo tube ...

BOTHELL, Wash., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As winter thaws and temperatures rise, mason bees will soon emerge! Once temps reach 55°F+, these essential pollinators wake from hibernation, ready ...

Rent Mason Bees’ Mason bee kits ($60) include a Mason bee house, nesting block, bag of clay, pollinator flower seeds, and 50 to 60 Mason bee cocoons sent in spring.