How to Raise Leafcutter Bees Webinar with Dave Hunter 2020

[@BBRubyT]

So incubation is when the larvae develop into the bee? If I harvested my own can I just put the cocoons into the drawer at let them incubate out there?

[@CrownBees]

Incubation is an artificial means of helping the bee develop to an adult when we want it to. This applies more to summer bees. And yes, what you suggest is a natural process that occurs without our involvement. The only challenge is that they emerge when they want, which might not be in concert when you have a specific pollination need.

[@jeniwren56]

I'm very interested in these bees and I've been doing a lot of research and I'm worried that it is too hot here in Central Texas. We get a lot of 3 digit temperatures in the hottest part of the summer and I would hate to cook the poor little cocoons in their tubes before they get a chance to emerge the next spring. IWe have a raised-bed garden and a pollinator garden hoping to draw more bees butterflies and hummingbirds to our yard. I'd love to know your thoughts on appropriate climates.

[@pratikbasnet5309]

Can we attract leaf cutter bees by making nests

[@pratikbasnet5309]

Can i use small pvc pipes to make nests

[@BBRubyT]

I have a hole design question. 4 years later hehe. The some of the reeds I got are not smooth inside. There is reed fiber sticking into the tubes on the insides. Some of them I wonder if the bees can even get in. Should I avoid using these reeds? The mason bees did not use the rough reeds, and the leafcutter size seem even more clogged.

[@CrownBees]

The inside of lake bed reeds tend to be smooth. The outside edge, when not cut carefully, may have fiber fragments in front. By inserting a pencil/pen into the opening, you mostly are able to help these reeds become useful!

[@stevehall8227]

Maybe , since it a company account, you can pay to edit the dead time out of the video.

[@isabellefitzgerald9828]

Can you spray the attractor on the holes When the bees are still in them

[@rachelellinger4779]

is there a time of day that is best to release them