Leafcutter bees for sale

Leafcutter bees for sale

Leafcutter Bee Cocoons

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Leafcutter Bees for Sale

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Choose Shipping of May or June 2025.

With a purchase of a hundred of these bees, you can effectively pollinate a garden space as large as 20×30 feet, which is equivalent to 600 square feet.

Pre-order Leaf Cutter cocoons (The Garden Bee) for your summer garden before they sell out! The last Day for shipping is June 30th.
Leaf Cutter Bees [Stingless Garden Bees]: We sell out every summer. Pre-order for the 2025 summer pollination season before we sell out. Leaf Cutter Bees are children-safe, pet-safe, stingless Leaf cutter bees cocoons raised on Rocky Pond Nursery Lavender fields. Leaf Cutter Bees [Stingless Garden Bees] are magnificent pollinators; it takes 20 Leaf Cutter Bees [Stingless Garden Bees] versus 200 Honeybees to pollinate two cherry or apple trees or a 20×30 Garden. Leaf Cutter Bees [Stingless Garden Bees] are easy to set up in twenty minutes. We will be sold out by June 15th. We cannot ship internationally. There Is A New Pollinator In The Garden.
A Bee A Hundred Times More Efficient at Pollinating Than the Honey Bee!
Leaf Cutter Bees are for summer gardens and will pollinate peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, Marionberries, strawberries, melons, and tomatoes. A few of these garden favorites, like tomatoes or corn, are called self-pollinating, but leaf-cutter bees will Increase yield in tomatoes by 25% through larger tomatoes and better quality.
A hundred Leaf Cutter Bees will pollinate about 20X30 (600 Sq Ft) of garden space. Leaf Cutter bees are extraordinary pollinators.
Children and pet safe; The gentle Leaf cutter bee does not sting; they are quite sweet.Perfect for your garden.
Leaf Cutter Bees are the key to 25% larger fruit and a 200% more productive garden or crop. They won’t wander off like honeybees; they will stick in the garden/the yard you put them on.
 (Megachile rotundata), Leafcutter Bees are cousins to Mason Bees (Megachile Osmia). Leaf Cutter Bees are native to every state in North America. Leaf Cutter Bees build nursery rooms out of LEAVES knitted together with silk threads.
Leaf Cutter bees are easy to set up it takes less than twenty minutes.
Whether you are an avid gardener or just starting out, Leaf Cutter Bees are a must-have for any yard space. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your garden and support the local wildlife. Order now from Rocky Pond Nursery!
Leafcutter Queens are prolific and gregarious ( which means several females will lay eggs in the same nesting hole.) laying 35-40 eggs a season.
You will need Rocky Pond Nursery’s custom-designed Leaf Cutter Bee Nesting Blocks and Pheromone Attractant. Add them to your order—you will need them!
For success, you will need nesting blocks that were used the previous season and then cleaned and sanitized for this year.  If not, the  Leaf Cutter Bees [Stingless Garden Bees]will only partially fill available nesting holes, or they will abandon the nesting site and search for a nest that smells more like home.
Leaf Cutter Bees’s sense of smell is 400% better than a bloodhound. You will want seasoned nesting blocks and Leaf Cutter bee attractant so that they can follow the winds home.
Leaf Cutters need a unique nesting hole of a unique size. Rocky Pond Nursery leaf Cutter nesting blocks are specifically designed for Leaf Cutter bees.
If you put back out your filled nesting block the following year, your Leafcutter Bees will pollinate next year’s garden.
Consider ordering a set of 200 Leaf Cutter bees and releasing the first hundred, then, three weeks later, the second hundred. This will give you 10-12 weeks of pollination from the garden’s first peas to the last garden season’s tomato.
The cocoons of leaf cutter Bees are cleaned and ready to go. We have a limited supply of Leaf Cutter Bees, so do not wait until the last minute to preorder your Garden Pollinators. Tell us when you would like them shipped.
Upon receipt of your order, we will send you a Rocky Pond Nursery color instructional brochure. Your Leaf Cutter Bee Cocoons ship May through June.
The Leafcutter bee or Leaf Cutter bees, there seems to be an ongoing discussion of how to spell Leafcutter, but regardless of spelling, you need them to pollinate your summer garden.

leafcutter bee pollinated tomatoes

Leafcutter bees will pollinate peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, Marionberries, strawberries, melons, tomatoes, and much more.

A few of these garden favorites, like tomatoes or corn, are called self-pollinating, but leafcutter bees will Increase yield in tomatoes by 25% through bigger tomatoes and better quality.

Leafcutter bees don’t Sting. Leafcutter bees don’t need mud like Mason Bees, but Leafcutter bees need leaves and a  temperature of 75-100 degrees F to pollinate. So if you are in a warm climate and have sand instead of mud,- Leafcutter bees are your ticket. Leafcutter bees are extraordinary pollinators. One Leaf Cutter bee can replace a hundred honey bees. Unlike Mason Bees, Leafcutter bee cocoons have a male to female ratio of 2 or 3 male leafcutter bees to 1 female leafcutter bee. It is not uncommon for Leafcutter bee cocoons to have four male leafcutter bees to one female leafcutter bee. So we need to provide you with more Leafcutter bee cocoons per set than in Mason Bees. You are buying females, whether Mason Bees or Leafcutter bees; the females pollinate, the males breed, and then die. If it is less than 70 degrees F outside, let your Leafcutter bee cocoons stay inside your house for 18 days, then either put them in your refrigerator until you are ready to put them out. If it is 70 degrees F plus most days, take them outside to your Leafcutter bee nest, where they will take an additional one to two weeks to hatch. If you are pollinating early crops like fruit and nuts, or when temperatures range from 50-85 degrees, you’ll need Mason bees. You will need nesting blocks and leafcutter bee attractant. You can buy our Leafcutter bee blocks houses/nests here: https://www.rockypondnursery.com/product/leafcutter-bee-house/ Leafcutter Attractant so they can find home: https://www.rockypondnursery.com/product/leafcutter-bee-attractant/

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Count

100, 200

Leafcutter Bee Ship Date

May 2025, June 2025

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