preparedness

it was a busy season for mason bees out back...however their season is over...so...

i took down the boxes they have nested in...

and placed them in preditor resistant mesh bags then put them away in the tool shed...

after which i placed new bee houses in the old sites...

then i spruced up the hatchery and placed new cardboard on one end to black it out, leaving the other open...why? tomorrow my leaf cutter cocoons arrive and they need places to both hatch and to nest...one hopes for as active a leaf cutter season as the masons produced...we will see...in the meantime there will be an arrival blog soon enough.