If you have a garden you know how very important bees are. They are essential for food production and for any successful garden. Each bee visits as many as 1000 blooms per day! Slightly smaller than honeybees, peaceful, non-stinging mason bees are incredible pollinators but they are in trouble. Because of their shrinking habitat and disease, their numbers are in sharp decline, but giving them a place to lay their eggs can help them survive.