| bee & bug house (page 02) | |
| a bee (& bug) house for solitary bees. built sept2011. inhabited summer 2012. |
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After sitting empty over the winter, bees began paying attention to the house in late May and started nesting in June. The above is a survey done 01 July 2012 - 23 chambers occupied. There are several different types of bees here and I'm just doing a bit of searching, trying to identify them... |
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Things picked up even more in the warm weather of August. Below is a survey done 15 August 2012 - 63 chambers occupied. Each hole, depending on depth, type of bee, etc. may have 4,5 or 6 chambers, each an individual cell with an egg and fuel (usually pollen). At this point there are possibly two or three hundred potential bees nestled away in this little house. |
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Pollen collecting below several active holes, knocked from the bees' hind legs as they went in and out preparing the nest chambers. |
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Quite happy to see the bees making use of the house, then, one day, there was this piece of grass floating across the yard... |
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