Gardeners love mason bees, the nonaggressive, super-pollinator cousins of the honey bee. It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards ...

Rent Mason Bees, the nation's largest solitary bee provider, has partnered with researchers at the University of California, Davis to address the alarming spread of the Houdini fly, an invasive ...

Join the Hunt for Houdini Flies! BOTHELL, Wash., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --Rent Mason Bees, the nation's largest solitary bee provider, has partnered with researchers at the University of ...

Cavity-nesting bees use hollow plant stems or burrow into brick: the first solitary bees I saw as a child were red-tailed mason bees in a Victorian walled garden, where they’d tunnelled into brick so ...

As honeybees die off again, some bee enthusiasts want to give mason bees a chance By Martha Ann Overland Apr 05, 2025 8:36am (Weekend Edition Saturday / NPR) A mason bee is pictured.

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields.