I bought several bee hives & eighty bees for him for his Christmas present, but he carefully put the bees in the refrigerator & set the desired humidity to keep them safe, then when the correct time arrived, he put the mason bee larva into their hives, & waited to see if they were going to hatch.
My partner blamed the lack of bees for not getting fruit on our trees; Every one of us had forty fruit trees, & it was the second consecutive year both of us hadn’t had USble fruit on our trees. My partner kept saying he was going to get the bees into our orchard, but he hadn’t done it, then i was going through a website that was talking about bees, & they gave bees for sale, and they had smaller mason bees that came out of the hive in the early Spring, & they fed from the plants & 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 & vegetable plants. The company gave special bee hives for the bees & had a book that discussed how to keep the bees healthy & when to harvest them. I bought several bee hives & eighty bees for him for his Christmas present, but he carefully put the bees in the refrigerator & set the desired humidity to keep them safe, then when the correct time arrived, he put the mason bee larva into their hives, & waited to see if they were going to hatch. He got aggravated when he didn’t see any bees, even though I told him to be patient. The same thing happened when the sixth set of bees went out. Three years later, both of us had so many bees on our property that he was all smiles. He still harvests the bee larva once the bees are sure to be dormant, & eighty bees have turned in hundreds of them.