Mason Bee Revolution

Mason Bee Revolution
Title Mason Bee Revolution PDF eBook
Author Dave Hunter
Publisher Mountaineers Books
Pages 371
Release 2016-03-22
Genre Gardening
ISBN 1594859647

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• Author Dave Hunter is at the leading edge of bee and pollinator issues • Mason bees are part of the solution to honeybees’ decline • No other bee book addresses the topic with such depth and interest • Includes useful information about leafcutter bees too! The national media regularly features dire stories on honeybee colony collapse and its danger to our food supply. But there's another, unsung bee that has the potential to save the planet—the mason bee. Mason Bee Revolution explains how docile, hard-working, solitary mason bees (and their compatriots, the leafcutter bees) are even more productive pollinators than honeybees, and keeping them can be a fun, easy, backyard hobby for gardeners, conservationists, foodies, and families everywhere. Why these bees? Bee pollination is critical for about 80 percent of US agricultural crops, increasing crop value by an estimated $15 billion annually. Since 2006, nearly a third of all honeybee hives have been lost each year, due to parasites, pesticides, habitat loss, climate change, and a newer malady called Colony Collapse Disorder. While scientists search for answers to save the honeybee, Dave Hunter and his company, Crown Bees, are leading the effort to increase the population of other highly efficient pollinators: One mason bee can produce twelve pounds of cherries, via pollination, where it would take sixty honey bees to achieve the same. Mason Bee Revolution is an easy-to-follow guide to keeping both mason and leafcutter bees. It tells you how to set up, care for, and harvest your own bees and what types of plants and habitat encourage mason and leafcutter bees, as well as provides general information on other common pollinators and bee-related facts, projects, and personalities.

Pollination with Mason Bees

Pollination with Mason Bees
Title Pollination with Mason Bees PDF eBook
Author Margriet Dogterom
Publisher Coquitlam, BC : Beediverse Books
Pages 0
Release 2002
Genre Bee culture
ISBN 9780968935705

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Introduces concept of pollination and bees/ mason bees to gardeners in order to increase fruit production. Includes information on nest construction and mason bee build-up with detailed pen and ink illustrations.

Mason Bees for the Backyard Gardener

Mason Bees for the Backyard Gardener
Title Mason Bees for the Backyard Gardener PDF eBook
Author Sherian A. Wright
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Bee culture
ISBN 9781592994618

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Mason Bees for the Backyard Gardener contains wonderful color photographs and illustrations. Step-by-step instructions get you started, choosing between an almost no-work method to a more involved method of winterizing your bees. In an era when people are asking "What's happening to the bees?" this book is indeed timely by focusing on a bee that requires no special equipment for its "beekeeping" criteria.

Dancing with Bees

Dancing with Bees
Title Dancing with Bees PDF eBook
Author Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Publisher Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages 306
Release 2020-06-19
Genre Nature
ISBN 1603589864

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A Journey Back to Nature

Orchard Mason Bee

Orchard Mason Bee
Title Orchard Mason Bee PDF eBook
Author Brian L. Griffin
Publisher
Pages 69
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Orchard mason bee
ISBN 9780963584113

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Real Gardens Grow Natives

Real Gardens Grow Natives
Title Real Gardens Grow Natives PDF eBook
Author Eileen M Stark
Publisher Mountaineers Books
Pages 645
Release 2014-09-24
Genre Gardening
ISBN 1594858675

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CLICK HERE to download sample native plants from Real Gardens Grow Natives For many people, the most tangible and beneficial impact they can have on the environment is right in their own yard. Aimed at beginning and veteran gardeners alike, Real Gardens Grow Natives is a stunningly photographed guide that helps readers plan, implement, and sustain a retreat at home that reflects the natural world. Gardening with native plants that naturally belong and thrive in the Pacific Northwest’s climate and soil not only nurtures biodiversity, but provides a quintessential Northwest character and beauty to yard and neighborhood! For gardeners and conservationists who lack the time to read through lengthy design books and plant lists or can’t afford a landscape designer, Real Gardens Grow Natives is accessible yet comprehensive and provides the inspiration and clear instruction needed to create and sustain beautiful, functional, and undemanding gardens. With expert knowledge from professional landscape designer Eileen M. Stark, Real Gardens Grow Natives includes: * Detailed profiles of 100 select native plants for the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades, plus related species, helping make plant choice and placement. * Straightfoward methods to enhance or restore habitat and increase biodiversity * Landscape design guidance for various-sized yards, including sample plans * Ways to integrate natives, edibles, and nonnative ornamentals within your garden * Specific planting procedures and secrets to healthy soil * Techniques for propagating your own native plants * Advice for easy, maintenance using organic methods

Our Native Bees

Our Native Bees
Title Our Native Bees PDF eBook
Author Paige Embry
Publisher Timber Press
Pages 225
Release 2018-02-07
Genre Nature
ISBN 1604697695

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A New York Times 2018 Holiday Gift Selection Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Our Native Bees explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. The people and stories are compelling: Paige Embry goes on a bee hunt with the world expert on the likely extinct Franklin’s bumble bee, raises blue orchard bees in her refrigerator, and learns about an organization that turns the out-of-play areas in golf courses into pollinator habitats. Our Native Bees is a fascinating, must-read for fans of natural history and science and anyone curious about bees.