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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> 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.


Thanks, Karen. I didn't think of that (not having had fruit yet). It 
makes sense that something attracted to a ripe apple won't be out as 
early as the mason bees. (And I just realized that I wasn't thinking 
about spraying, either, when I put the bee tubes so close to my fruit 
trees. Duh!)

Thanks again,

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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