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[Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>]

in my experience, the mason bees are wrapping up their lives by early june in the pacific northwest by the time i am getting the apple maggot traps out and sticky for the first hatchings in early july; i've never seen a mason bee on a sticky sphere.

karen

oregon city, OR - zone 8a and wet

On Apr 6, 2008, at 6:58 PM, William C. Garthright wrote:

We use January special red Christmas tree balls as our sticky spheres,

covered in Tangletrap.

...

No honeybees in my recollection, though we do have a hive about 100

feet away.

Thanks, Richard. I've got blue orchard bees less than 10 ft. from my
apple trees, and I was worried they might be attracted to anything red.
I should have apples for the first time this year (knock on wood), so
I'm not sure what pests I might encounter. I want to be prepared, but I
don't want to go overboard. I guess I'll just try to monitor things closely.

I like the idea of the homemade sticky spheres, though.

Thanks again,

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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