The Orchard Mason Bee - Brian Griffin

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Category: non-fiction Acquired: Gift from Kari & Kyle, Birthday 2007 Read: Jan 2007 Briefly: History, sociology, biology, care and propagation of some very interesting little pollinators.

Comments: This book came as part of a starter kit for raising my own colony of Mason Bees. These guys are my idea of an ideal bee. They stay at home, do their job efficiently, never sting, and live for nine months of the year in little cardboard tubes - half of that time being in your refrigerator. The Bellingham-based author seems to have popularized this species in the Northwest, and now makes a nice retirement out of selling books, supplies and larvae (in little cardboard tubes). It's now late February, so just a few more weeks until I get to take mine out of the refrig and see what happens.