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  • From: nottke <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] MASON BEES
  • Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:34:12 -0400

My Mason Bees will only nest in tubes of 5/16 to 3/8 in diameter and only
in a bright area, in the orchard or under an eave - they won't go into a
garage or shop where it is dark. The mud plugs they make are the color of
our red clay. Mason bees are mild-mannered and have never stung me.

The mud daubers prefer to make vertical tubes on a surface or fill larger
tubes and holes and they prefer a dark area - their mud is ashy gray. The
smaller ones are docile but the larger blue-black ones sting with very
little provication.

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
Hardiness Zone 7A






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