{"id":888,"date":"2009-05-27T01:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-05-27T01:51:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:51:51","slug":"mason-beeleaf-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/888","title":{"rendered":"Mason Bee\/Leaf cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/insect\/05576.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leaf cutter bee with crab spider\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/insect\/insimg\/05576F01-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf cutter bee with crab spider\" width=\"252\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaf cutter bee with crab spider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am thinking of making a Mason Bee box. Not so much to attract mason bees although I think that would be cool too but I have seen many leaf cutter bee nests. I thought they were mason bees but now I see there is a difference. They apparently use the same kind of box. While they damage leaves the custom made boxes actually cut down on the damage from the bees because they don&#8217;t need to cut as many leaves to make their nest. Also they won&#8217;t attack your vehicle or other machinery if they have a proper house. In addition they will pollinate your plants and hopefully produce more fruit. I have only seen two honey bees since the season started and I suspect that is why my squash is suffering. It&#8217;s too late in the season I think for the leaf cutter and mason bees but I would like to get ready for next year. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wingsinflight.com\/gardbees.html\">link that talks about all about them.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/insect\/05576.html\">another good link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking of making a Mason Bee box. Not so much to attract mason bees although I think that would be cool too but I have seen many leaf cutter bee nests. I thought they were mason bees but now I see there is a difference. They apparently use the same kind of box. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[66,67],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-leaf-cutter-bee-box","tag-mason-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}