Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type:
Price:
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Post Mounting Sleeve
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres and select Farmlands branches nationwide.
Using the Creative Woodcraft post mounting sleeve many of our products can be mounted on to any standard waratah / steel 'Y' post. Allowing you to position your bird house, bird table, bird feeder, Leafcutter bee house, butterfly house and many other products just where you want it!
Includes
- Post mounting sleeve
- Fixing screws
Observations
Position your Creative Woodcraft product just where you want them! ]]>
Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
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This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres and select Farmlands branches nationwide.
- Leafcutter bee cocoons contain dormant Leafcutter bees.
- They are shipped between July and January while stocks last.
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We suggest purchasing a minimum of 50 cells to enable good habitation of your Leafcutter bee house.
Creative Woodcraft’s Leafcutter bee houses are purposely designed to accept Leafcutter bee cocoons.
Supplies are limited - ORDER NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
Creative Woodcraft is New Zealand's only distributor of Leafcutter bees.
Gardeners often miss out on proper pollination due to lack of bees. Introduce gentle, safe, super-pollinating bees to your gardens.
No protective gear required! Our bees are not aggressive and totally safe around children and pets! and do not have the same upkeep (or cost) as honey bees.
News about Solitary bees is a becoming a hot topic and our leafcutter bees are in high demand. With our educational website www.BeeGAP.co.nz you can quickly learn to raise gentle-natured garden bees.
Our mission is to help gardeners everywhere grow more food and flowers.
Pollination
Leafcutter bees are generalists; meaning they don’t stick to certain blossoms, they like to pollinate whatever they find and like. They pollinate most blooming garden fruit, vegetables and various flowers.
Beyond honey bees, solitary bees have been pollinating our food and flowers around the world for millions of years. They are the original and best pollinators and we’ve chosen to work with a great bee that is a generalist (love all types of flowers), easy-to-raise, gentle, and a superior pollinator.
Our favourite summertime bee is the leafcutter bee, which emerges when the weather starts to reach 24°C. It is a super pollinator that carries pollen dry on their underside which falls off on each flower visited. The honey bee carries pollen wet and sticky on their hind legs, with little pollen falling off.
Observation
Become a leafcutter bee keeper and raise gentle-natured bees.
* Orders for Leafcutter bee cocoons received between January and June are processed as a pre-order and will be shipped during the first few weeks of July.
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Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
0.00
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres and select Farmlands branches nationwide.
We can all use a little more pollination, so why not become a leafcutter bee keeper.
Raise gentle-natured leafcutter bees and see your garden explode with blossom as a result!
This unique leafcutter bee house with nesting tray system is designed specifically to provide a home for leafcutter bees. These types of bees do not swarm, are gregarious and safe around children and pets, they are naturally attracted to the holes in wood. The leafcutter bee house provides a habitat that has become harder for them to find in modern gardens today. The leafcutter bee house can be sited at any time of the year. It will also be used by other species of New Zealand native solitary bees.
Product includes
- Leafcutter bee house
- 72 hole inter-locking nesting tray system
Siting
Site the box in a visible warm place ideally to catch the morning sun. It is helpful to have soil nearby and food sources such as flowers, fruit trees, etc.
Attach to trees, pergolas, fences etc. in a sheltered position.
Although these bees do not swarm they are gregarious and once the box is used, occupation will increase in the following years. Increasing Pollination of fruit trees, flower gardens and vegetable gardens.
Because of the solid timber construction and insulation value, the bee house will not need to be taken inside in winter.
Other
For further information please visit our educational web recourse www.BeeGAP.co.nz (Gardeners Adding Pollinators)
At Creative Woodcraft, we do not endorse drilled nesting holes in wood or bamboo tubes as these cannot be cleaned or inspected!
Maintenance
This leafcutter bee house is made from quality timber sourced from local, sustainable managed forest plantations. Non-toxic water based stains and sealants are used wherever possible in the manufacturing of our products. The leafcutter bee house can be re-stained periodically to maintain its appearance.
Observation
Raise leafcutter bees and encourage other native cavity nesting solitary bees.
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