Crown Bees

It can be frustrating when nature doesn't work as planned. Most of our customers are successful in some capacity, but not all. We have learned that an oasis surrounded by neighbors with toxic dumps will typically have no bees nesting. Who's to blame? Certainly not the oasis owner.

Leafcutter bees need pollen, holes, and non-fibrous leaves to nest in initially. However, there are a few things that might not work: extremely windy, too cold, chemical smells upwind, bird feeders next to bee houses, etc. I have no idea what can go wrong. If this customer only has honey or bumble bees and no native bees, then there is something wrong in the general area, not necessarily in his/her oasis.

We do all we can do to provide as much success as possible. When things are worse for whatever reason, it is frustrating.

It's easy to look at one failure and say "all things are bad from that company." It is a free world to say as one wants. The truth is, and the reason I'm responding to this issue, is that most people are successful, but not all.

We have farmers using mason bees getting double their crop. We have farmers using leafcutter bees with too much produce and not enough pickers. That's reality. We also have some people that have not one bee nesting. How many companies cares enough to send out 100 more live bees to a customer based on their issues? I suggest not many. Yes, we might have goofed with a phone guess vs. actual costs to send bees out priority which depends on a specific address.

The big picture is we need more people like onilollaig trying to raise native bees. More native bees can create a better world.

Dave Hunter, Crown Bees owner