Mason Bee Packages Now Available
Orchard mason bees are indigenous to North America, and their role as pollinators is crucial to our indigenous plant life. Keeping mason bees is a low cost way to improve our natural environment. They are easy to maintain, and delightful to watch.
While the importance of honeybees to our food supply has been well publicized by the media, the role of native pollinators such as the orchard mason bee and the bumble bee to our ecology is less widely recognized. We are dedicated to increasing the cultural and environmental awareness of orchard mason bees (Osmia lignaria), bumble bees (Bombus), and our many other native bee pollinators.
We have been doing business in Portland, Oregon area for 114 years. We have a large store where you can see all our bee products, and bee educational material. Our online store provides everything you could want to cultivate healthy and productive orchard bees.
Our store hours are: 8:30am to 5:30pm, Monday through Friday, and 10:00am to 2:00pm on Saturday.
Call us: 503 657 5399
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Nesting Tubes
Orchard
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Backyard
40 cocoons or 6 tubes
Backyard Orchard
100 cocoons or 18 tubes
Orchard (1+ acres)
1000 cocoons or 168 tubes
Mason Bee Houses
Left Picture: Partially filled mason be nest. Some tubes fully nested and capped over with mud. Other tubes apparently empty but actually partiallly filled with cocoons. The females lay their eggs starting at the back and work toward the front. Female eggs are layed at the back of the tube,and males toward the front. A six-inch tube will typically have between 6 and 8 cocoons.
Below: Mason bee nest on edge of Douglas Fir forest in western Oregon
Small Backyard
20 cocoons or 3 tubes
