The right flowers, fruit, and vegetables in your garden will attract some of your own bees, as well as welcoming bumblebee and solitary bee species.
Read MoreDesign choices, plant selections, and maintenance practices can make a huge difference in creating your own healthy ecosystem.
Read MoreCommon throughout the mid to southeastern United States, the carpenter-mimic bee (or copycat bee) has earned its name.
Read MoreI want to make mason bee homes. I plan to try drilling a wood block, but also try bamboo. Since moisture is an issue with bamboo, has anyone tried drying the bamboo out in a low temp oven? Do they have suggestions about how long and at what temperature to dry the bamboo?
Read MoreWhen we see flower parts stuck to bees, it’s usually the pollenia of either milkweeds or orchids. The pollenia are pollen-filled sacks that stick to the pollinator like glue and eventually fall off on another flower. Honey bees are most apt to engage with milkweed pollenia, and sometimes they have so many long and stringy orange sacks hanging from their legs they can barely fly.
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