The Osmia cornuta males are out looking for love.

Assisting Alfred the Carpenter Bee

Stinging Encounter between Mason Bees

Solitary mason bees start to emerge - April 8 2013

Mason bee activity review - April 2012

Common wasps or Yellow Jackets, the yearly dilemma

Solitary Bees aggressively competing at tunnel entrance

Mason bees - reviewing nesting progress in April

Mason bees and my fruit trees - April 2012

Mason Bees discovered in cellar

The Canned Bee Challenge

Tawny Mining Bees love Gooseberry flowers

Carpenter Bees Courting

Biodiversity first - Encouraging native bees on French Farms

Mason Bees excavating mud for nests

Mason Bee experiment - rounded or vertical tunnel ends?

Mason Orchard Bee preparations the day before Spring 2012

Mason bees - how to get long tunnels from knotweed

Mason bee males emerging 11 March 2012

Hummingbird moth (Hemaris sp.) on lavender

How to sleep if you're a female mason bee.

Crazy Hornet built nest in sunglass case

Mason / Solitary bees emerging from their cocoons

Beautiful day of cherry blossoms, bees, birds and a butterfly

New bees on the block - Red orchard mason bees start work

Little solitary bee timidly coming out of mason bee block

Osmia females nesting in reeds

Male Osmies (mason bees) waiting for the morning sunshine

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Mason bees - thank you.