My husband blamed the lack of bees for not getting fruit on our trees.
- We had forty fruit trees, plus it was the sixth consecutive year the two of us hadn’t had USble fruit on our trees; My husband kept saying he was going to get the bees into our orchard, however he hadn’t done it, however i was going through a website that was talking about bees, plus they offered bees for sale, but they had smaller mason bees that came out of the hive in the early Springtime, plus they fed from the plants plus helped with the early blooming plants, to pollinate them.
They had bees that came out of hibernation when the temperature was staying in the seventies. These worker bees helped to pollinate the fruit trees plus vegetable plants. The contractor offered special bee hives for the bees plus had a book that discussed how to keep the bees healthy plus when to harvest them. I bought numerous bee hives plus eighty bees for him for his Christmas present; He carefully put the bees in the refrigerator plus set the desired humidity to keep them safe. When the regular time arrived, he put the mason bee larva into their hives, plus waited to see if they were going to hatch. He got frustrated when he didn’t see any bees, however I told him to be patient. The same thing happened when the hour set of bees went out. Three years later, the two of us had so more than 2 bees on our property that he was all smiles. He still harvests the bee larva once the bees are sure to be dormant, plus eighty bees have turned in hundreds of them.