With a variety of information out on the internet on the best tubes to use for Mason Bee culture, I thought I would report here on some of the trials I have run last season which compared different tubes and nestboxes.
In 2018 I placed Phragmites tubes alongside of the commercially available plastic hinged boxes.
For the question .. does availability of the number of nesting tubes determine the success rate?
In the same location as the samples above , I also had a larger supply of tubes available with the following result.. I haven’t calculated the % of successful tubes here. Note also the dimensions of the box.. I used maximum length Phragmites tubes for this box.
