[MomwithHope]

I just picked up the house at a local store. 12.00 and it came with the tubes. After a week it looked like this. The more I read about them I found out Mason bees are very common and most people have them, they just don't know it.

[Bon of Babble]

I am really surprised this year that I haven’t gotten a lot of bees - I have a large area in the back of my property that is dedicated to bees and butterflies - in past years, I’ve told my family not to go back there b/c of the amount of bees (I’m trying to do my part to save them!).

This year...few to no bees, even though the bee garden is in full bloom. Very odd.

Plenty of butterflies, both monarchs, swallowtails and sulphurs, and some humming birds too, have no idea why there are so few bees.

I saw those bee houses at my local gardening store and was thinking of putting in one or two.