How to Set Up Native Bee Hive | Mason and Leafcutter Bees

Learn to set up your own native bee hive using Mason and Leaf Cutter bees from Crown Bees!
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[@raybaker8726]

Been researching bees and keeping them. In the spring I am going to add a bee house to garden.

[@amyrogers336]

I just got 2 houses... I'm am so excited to see how they work.... Thank you so much for the video 😊

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Nice! Have fun setting them up! They are so cute!

[@SandyGrace_FeatheredFriends]

New subscriber, I shared with my daughter. She was talking about bees not too long ago. This was very interesting. I didn’t know there were bees that didn’t sting. I am allergic so I really learned something new. Thank you.

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

This is a great way to raise pollinators. These are the bees that are actually native to north america. The honey bees brought to America are actually from Europe originally.

[@ausfoodgarden]

I'm in Australia and get lots of native blue banded bees visiting the garden. They pollinate in a very different way to more popular bees and I'm sure they help my garden. I've started building homes for solitary bees and wasps in my garden to make sure I get their help ::)

[@gvas7560]

Awesome, i did not know such thing was possible. Thanks for sharring this. Keep up the good work God bless you

[@gogogardener]

My neighbor has been in the Inland area since before 15 fwy. The family left a large eucalyptus log on the land for the mason bees. I'm so glad they understood the land; because the mason bees pollinate my squashes and pole beans very well. I see fewer every year, so maybe it's my turn to give them a home. I used to count what looked like 5 varieties of bees in my garden. I"m not sure I have them all still. There was the typical honey bee, a honey bee that was more grey bodied, the black mason bee, and rarely I'd see a striped mason bee.... and I also include the ground dwelling yellow jackets which have nearly disappeared. The wasps seem to have disappeared as well over the last 5 to 10 years. I'm curious, some bees I see now have swollen hind legs. Is that normal, or is that a sign they're infested with mites? They seem pretty busy working, not lethargic or anything; but I hadn't seen that trait until the last 5 years or so. And after reading your site, I realize I have leaf cutter bees too.

[@mlmazur2007]

That is a great set up. We have been trying to get one going for this year. Still not sure where to get the clay and how to keep that near the bees to use for their nest. Thanks for doing this walk through

[@goodgoat3096]

You can actually buy mud at Crown Bees or make some with your garden soil.

[@tegannottelling]

Really interesting, in Australia I think we have about 24 species of native bees. I have also just purchased an insect house for my garden, similar concept but locally made. We also get mud wasps etc which help out with pests which I’m encouraging to nest in the insect house and not my mud brick walls 😕

[@ausfoodgarden]

Hey Tegan where abouts in Aus are you? I'm in Melbourne

[@tegannottelling]

In Northern NSW

[@elijahwu4168]

Wow, excited to see the progress!

[@TLFarm]

Fascinating info Steven. It's a shame no honey, but if you have to thin out fruit more, that's impressive 😉 Cheers Leigh.

[@tegannottelling]

Toon & Leigh porpeang farm Thailand look into the Australian native bees, stingless and a hive produces about 1kg if native ‘sugar bag’ a year ( thicker more crystal type of honey )

[@riverunner9978]

I’m starting with these pollinators in spring24

[@MatsukawaZaraki]

Great new video Buddy! I'm definitely gonna set up some of these in addition to the FlowHives we'll be installing on our property!

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Sweet that will be a good combo!

[@cathiegalbraith475]

Great video. I would like to give it a try.

[@sdkemm]

Great information. Thank you for sharing.

[@DaChronsman420]

super interesting! had no idea there were native bees that dont sting..

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

I learned so much about them from this process, I had no idea either.

[@DavidLGreen-yw1wg]

@@NaturesAlwaysRight Mine are inhabited by solitary wasps as much as bees. They don't sting either, and are great to have, as they eat pests from the garden and yard.

[@karandeokar9224]

Is it okay to use plastic pipes instead of hollow bamboo stalks for Leaf Cutter Bee house?

[@repurposedart9897]

How do you let the bees know where you placed the clay?

[@MarkPrimavera]

You care for bees but then you go and put a nail in a tree - tisk, tisk. Great video and thank you for sharing.

[@VashtiPerry]

Can we get an update?

[@johndev72]

I grew some Nigella sativa assuming it was really Black cumin but that is one of its common names and is not actually cumin (the seeds I mean) but it attracts the widest range of small bees and wasps....here is a link to the species of flower on wikipedia... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_sativa By the way, we had several bee hives here and at one point I was personally trained (at work) by the chairman of the Irish National Bee Keepers Association. Honey bees are rather tough cookies to keep...they stray and the entire hive can just leave without giving you any notice but we did get a stray bee colony one time that stayed with us for about a month or two before they went off on their own again. But please do try out Nigella sativa...aka black cumin, black caraway and so forth.

[@daleford5531]

Not all kits are including the bees or the spray..

[@juliek7650]

They didn't put a cool pack in mine so when we opened the box, all the bees flew away!

[@babetteisinthegarden6920]

TFS

[@iwant2stayhome]

Would this be good for Zone 5b and 6a, Colorado?

[@adryawebb2556]

Yes, I live in zone 6b and have lots of solitary, Mason and leaf cutter bees that use the bee houses I have setup for them.

[@alagass6466]

Do Wasps attack the Native Bees?

[@livclementine6373]

While filling tubes they are susceptible to parasitic wasps. These tiny little wasps will crawl into tubes that have not been capped yet and lay their eggs on the mason bee eggs. The eggs hatch and feast on the mason bee eggs. Something to watch for while your bees are filling tubes.

[@fgb3126]

Are those your real eyebrows?! 🤔

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

So a year on, nothing. And no update

[@HotKooks]

🧐🐛

[@spencerharris4814]

That is for telling me nothing

[@brianbbb7931]

Don’t mount to tree you’ll have problems with ants

[@flbeachinggirl]

I think male and females are placed separate for releasing or males could eat females

[@digil4509]

I have a bee house in my backyard for the mason bees. The males do not eat the females, they do however hatch first and fly out to eat pollen as they're pretty hungry when they hatch. Then the girls hatch, they mate and die. The girls stay around for 6 to 8 weeks. Collect lots of pollen, create many mud tubes with many bee eggs, then they die. While they are collecting all that pollen they are turning your vegetable garden into a wonderful future harvest. Enjoy.

[@rogermontague5398]

I'm trying to learn more about native bees in addition to having a number of honey bee colonies that I maintain. You make a number of misstatements about honey bees. Get your facts straight.

[@movingnaturefilms]

I think you have Eugene Levy beat on eyebrows.

[@jonny_mazerati9410]

Tim Standaert omg 😂

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Haha you better believe it!

[@mariaheld5932]

Nails into a tree, NO.

[@markheslin8745]

A little box like that while nice 😎 Is simply Never going to be able to do the work of one honey bee hive. Honey bee hives contain on average 40 to 50 thousand bees ! A box like that will only hold what - 20 mason bees ??

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

I recommend listening to the podcast or reading up on native bees. I was blown away by how many more flowers they are able to pollinate vs honey bees. I thought the same thing! Might need more than just this box to compete with that big of a hive though.

[@deniseferguson7148]

@@NaturesAlwaysRight You are correct, it takes 7 mason bees to pollinate a fruit tree, it takes 354 honey bees to do the same tree

[@Axel103Axel]

Mason bees leaf cutting bees 🐝 do a much better job pollinating than honney bees I have 4 different kinds of bees in 6 acres and solitary bees though less do a better job