Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World - One Backyard at a Time Kindle Edition

I am a long time honey beekeeper and am expanding my habitat and housing for these solitary bees in recent years.This is hands down, my most useful guide on the highly productive Mason Bee.I found it to be particularly helpful as I design and install nesting houses with tubes that facilitate the female orchard bee egg laying practices.This book has all of the information I need to succeed with bees.Highly detailed yet without boring me to tears, and very well peppered with photos that I found very helpful.I have been binge reading about native pollinators and this is a "must have" for any serious student of native pollinators and how to provide for them by constructing houses and planting appropriate native plants to feed the bees so the bees can help the plants that feed us.Money well spent... I have the kindle edition but have come back to purchase the paperback version.I definitely endorse this well researched and delivered text on these valuable pollinators.

I'm on the learning curve about bees and providing habitat and shelter for them. I contemplated raising honey, but it's just more than I want to take on. I am interested in mason bees and used this book among others to educate myself. I haven't yet tried to attract them but plan to as part or an overall garden design that is creature and insect friendly.I live in a populated area but there is abundant open space around our area that provides habitat. It seems like most people aren't tuned into the bee population crisis the world is in and I feel strongly we should all do our bit. This book will show you how.

We used to have so many different kinds of flying insect pollinators. Due to modern fire clearance regulations that apparently stipulate the weedy grasses must be ground into the dirt, the ground dwelling bees etc, have virtually disappeared. We're still visited by mason bees, which probably nest in the hillier parts, but no longer see bumbles, blue wasps, syrphid flies, megachiles. Much of the yellow jackets are gone. I'd say about 90% gone. So, I thought I'd find out more about what mason bees need. This book "Mason Bee Revolution" is informative. Very nice photos in the front of the book. The most negative comment I have is: I find the "magazine" style of inserting other articles in between what I was just reading, annoying. I have to search for where to continue the sentence or paragraph interrupted by the insertion because it doesn't say "continued on page xxx". It's a book, not a newspaper or magazine, there is no need to do this kind of editing. I was determined to read the whole book, but I think that feature could discourage reading of the basic chapter. Overall, to help people understand these bees, and even provide flowers and water and shelter for them, and not reach for the bug spray is a huge step towards conservation of pollinators.

Great book to give the details on supporting Mason bees. These little guys do more pollinating than honeybees and don't sting! I am eager to raise them and pollinate the mango tree next door that flowers and then doesn't fruit. Mason bees to the rescue. Great fun.

I was hoping that this book would have some nice photos and I was not disappointed. There are a good number of nice color photos in the front of the book and the rest of the book has black-and-white pictures. There is a lot of information on why Mason bees are important and on how to care for them. Since I am interested in the subject it was an interesting read.

A must have resource for anyone that invest the time and expense for fruit and vegetable plants. Followed the directions of the author and the same space that yielded fewer than a dozen tomatoes last year has produced hundreds this season and is still going strong.

I am really glad I got this book. It is very informative if you are a beginner & is easy to understand. It, also, has a nice resource section in the back of the book. The book was worth buying & a necessity for a beginner mason or leaf cutter bee keeper.

Nice, well-written book. I am new to keeping solitary bees and was hoping to get more in-depth information than I could find available on the internet. I think I was fooling myself as there is just so much information available whether you find it in this book or find it on the internet. Still, it is a nice reference book, well-written, and has beautiful pictures.

Good background information and easy to understand instructions.

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Fantastic book on everything Mason Bee. I have used this book with my bees for a full year and the book has increased my enthusiasm and knowledge of these wonderful, hardworking and needed insects!

You will what is needed on the subject. Very good starter book.