Wild bees nesting in beetle burrows
Remember how I wrote that many
of our native bees nest in old beetle burrows in dead trees, stumps,
and branches?
I'd never noticed these holes before, but now that I've read about
them, I see them everywhere.
The stumps we lazily
left strewn throughout the yard and garden are clearly one of the
sources of our huge native bee population. This is a
representative sample of just a few inches of one of our stumps.
Come to think of it, a
couple of years ago, I saw a strange-looking wasp visit this stump for
an unknown reason --- I guess I know what she was doing now!
Since our stumps are
slowly being ripped
out of the ground
and turned into hugelkultur
mounds, I guess it's
a good thing I'm making the bees replacement
homes.
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