Complete Guide To Solitary Bees | Leafcutter | Blue Orchard Mason | Shelter | Cocoons
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2021
- Complete Guide To Solitary Bees | Leafcutter | Blue Orchard Mason | Shelter | Cocoons
Follow my solitary bee journey I've documented for over the past decade and understand their lifecycle, impact on the environment and most importantly, learn how to raise your own aggregation!
Getting started is simple, all you need are nesting tubes!
Topics
- Cocoon Harvesting
- Diseases
- Fungal Infections
- Husbandry
- Lifecycle
- Nesting Materials
- Predators
- Releasing Methods
- Requirements
- Shelter Varieties
- Many More!
Solitary Bee Facts
- Solitary bees do not serve a colony or a queen
- Each bee makes their own nest, no honey is produced
- Over 20,000 native bee species can be found around the world
- Solitary bees can be found in your backyard, species varies by region
- Bee stings are extremely rare
- Male solitary bees do not have a stinger
- Solitary bees do not make honey
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To the general viewing public:
I have been touting the merits of "raising" mason bees for years, but it is still rare to find anyone who even knows what they are. Compared to keeping a honeybee hive, they are dead simple to cultivate.
Feel like if you split the tubes before you place them and wrap them in paper to hold them together, they’ll be easier to harvest later.
I love your beautiful and informative video. I will have to watch it several times in attempt to catch every single word. You are providing valuable information, but you're speaking very fast, to the point where you swallow the end of words. To me, every word you say is very important. In future videos, please try to slow down a bit. I live in southern Ontario, Canada, where the population of honey bees has dropped by 60% from last year to this year, due to some mites infestation. This spring and summer, I have not seen a single honey bee. In my small backyard, I have 20 well established blueberry bushes, raspberries and vegetables growing that need to be pollinated. I am mostly concerned about the pollination of the blueberries since they bloom the earliest. This year, 2022, I had only 2 bumble bees doing the job. I read that bumble bees can be very picky and pollinate only those blueberry varieties that taste good to them and ignore the rest. That would explain why they did not visit half of my blueberry bushes. This fall, I planted 60 bulbs of grape hyacinth flowers in between the blueberry bushes as companion plants, to increase availability of pollen for the bees in the spring. I have pre-ordered 20 Mason bee cocoons for 2023 release. I have no idea how hungry my 20 Mason bees will be. In your video, you recommend to stagger the release of the hatched bees. So if I release 10 bees at the beginning of May, when majority of my blueberries start blooming, when should I release the other 10 bees? After watching your video, I think I want to pre-order the leaf cutting bees in addition to the Mason bees. Do leaf cutting bees like blueberry or raspberry leaves and maple tree leaves? In the front of my house, I also have a rose bush that I planted this spring. I have several lavender plants around the rose bush to repel aphids. As a result, the rose leaves are clean, healthy and free of aphids or any other visible pests. I don't use any pesticides.
The leaf cutter cocoons were so gorgeous. Love solitary bees. They’re so fascinating.
Thank you for incorporating text into your videos. It would be helpful if you put the important and difficult to understand words also in your video, like the disease names. The autocaptions are not great.
Good video but keep your cat inside.
These videos are absolutely amazing. As a landscape designer, I love seeing how the landscape is used for these different professions, hobbies and specialties, so that when I encounter it I can respond accordingly. Thank you!
This is the first time I’m hearing of the categorization: Dragonfly, Threat Level, Low Risk 😂. Also nice shot of 紫蘇 and 猫紫蘇 🐈
Thanks for the hard work you put into this video. I had some questions, maybe I missed the answers. Why do you harvest the bees versus leaving them in the tubes? Are these traditional cocoons or are they embryos? Do the solitary bees begin breeding as soon as they’re born? I’m assuming traditional hive bees do not procreate such as worker bees, but do all of the solitary bees able to procreate? The pods can sustain cold through hibernation? The adults can survive cold weather into spring? Why do you need to disinfect the pods?
So they make honey. If not worthless
First summer after I bought my new house, I saw a cutter bee for the first time. I was so confused. All I saw was this fat bodied thing, flying thru the air with a "green snowboard" and then it landed on the lawn and disappeared. I called my mom cuz I had no idea wtf had just happened and what I saw...... she told me about cutter bees and I just giggled. Now everytime I see one, I have a good laugh. They really are quite cute and also funny looking when they have grass or leaves between their feets ❤
Informative, sweet, a most pleasant way to spend 30 minutes.
I appreciate your subtle humor in the captions.
That was absolutely incredible! Beautiful filming, narration, attention to detail. Mostly though incredible information! I have had a mild interest in Mason bees. Now am determined to become a beekeeper/helper also for solitary bees. I plant what I call little pollinator gardens and keep increasing the variety and amt of flowers each year. I am trying to have something bloom for as many months as possible. So I am going to buy bee houses, rewatch your video and start learning. Awesome to find out that the bees recognize you and know you are helping. Thanks again for an incredible video!
this was so meditative to watch
Excellent video. Super informative
I first started on your Wasabi video. Now I'm here. Love em and I will share them everywhere I can. You do an amazing job. Keep up the good work! This channel will blow up soon!!
Thank you for video. Best greetings from beekeepers in Ukraine.😊😮😮😊😊
Nice video. Very helpful. I just discovered a weird bee making a nest in my vac motor. Decided to look it up. Found it was a mason bee. So im very happy to of run across your video. It was very helpful. And i think i will try and make them a home now. That is not my vac motor. Thank you for the video. You made some bees very happy soon as i build their home.