Spring Mason Bee House Setup Tips

Spring Mason Bee House Setup Tips

Spring Bee House: Setup Tips from the Pros


Bees are cold-blooded and they need the warmth of the sun to get going.

Your bees will have more time to fly and build their nests if they have a warm place to live that faces the morning sun. They also prefer a home that is stable and not swinging in the wind. 


Choose a good bee house location:

• Within about 300ft/100m of your fruit & nut trees and berry patches.

• On a solid wall, fence, or post.

• Facing the morning sun (S or SE).

• Height: about your eye-level for easy viewing and to protect from animals like raccoons.

• Avoid installing the bee house right next to a bird feeder or a birdhouse.

• Remember to keep nearby plants trimmed for a clear bee-line to the house.

 

After you install your spring bee house:

Place only the 8mm sized nesting holes into the house. Spring mason bees prefer the 8mm sized nesting holes. (The 6mm sized holes included in your BeeWorks kits are meant for summer leafcutter bees.)

 

Worried about birds?

Birds might be attracted to the bee house and keeping your bees safe is easy. Install our Bird Guard wire mesh to the front of your bee house. The openings of our Bird Guard is just the right size for bees to fly in while keeping birds out.
 

Essential Accessories for Spring Mason Bees 

Spring mason bees prefer to nest in nesting holes that smell like mason bees have nested there previously. Use our InvitaBee Plus+ to attract female mason bees to nest in your fresh nesting materials.
 
Ensure your yard provides clayey mud for your female mason bees! Spring mason bees use clayey mud to build walls inside of their nesting holes and they won't nest in your bee house without it nearby. If your soil is dry, loamy, sandy, or has too much organic material, just add our Mason Bee Mud Mix to an open wedge of soil in your yard.

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