Mason Bee Revolution

How the Hardest Working Bee can Save the World - One Backyard at a Time

By: Dave Hunter, Jill Lightner

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

The national media regularly features dire stories on honeybee colony collapse and its danger to our food supply. But there's another, unsung bee that has the potential to save the planet - the mason bee.

Mason Bee Revolution explains how docile, hard-working, solitary mason bees (and their compatriots, the leafcutter bees) are even more productive pollinators than honeybees, and keeping them can be a fun, easy, backyard hobby for gardeners, conservationists, foodies, and families everywhere.

While scientists search for answers to save the honeybee, Dave Hunter and his company, Crown Bees, are leading the effort to increase the population of other highly efficient pollinators: One mason bee can produce 12 pounds of cherries, via pollination, where it would take 60 honey bees to achieve the same.

Mason Bee Revolution is an easy-to-follow guide to keeping both mason and leafcutter bees. It tells you how to set up, care for, and harvest your own bees and what types of plants and habitat encourage mason and leafcutter bees, as well as provides general information on other common pollinators and bee-related facts, projects, and personalities.

©2016 Dave Hunter and Jill Lightner (P)2019 Tantor

Informative

I listen to lots of native bee podcasts and books and lectures. This one was refreshing informative and empowering unlike many others

Informative

Informative but the listings as the end of some chapters can be daunting, especially in audible form. Good for referencing and fining additional information.

Great book

Great book very informative, I highly recommend to anyone interested in mason bees or the environment

boring narrator,v gave up after 5 minutes

regret purchasing,could not stand this snide slow speaking narrator.think twice about buying.what a painful few minutes.