For those who are fearful of bees you might want to add a few Mason bees to your garden, they don't sting you and if they do it more like a mosquito bite than your average bee sting. Its some thing the whole family can do together building a bee house and watching them build their nest. I'm getting ready to put out the 2 houses that I made for them last year, I'll hang the out around the last week in April so the can hatch and the young bees have time to grow before flying off to play in your garden.