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Urban Bees

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« on: April 19, 2013, 05:34:30 pm »


I saw either two honeybees or one honeybee twice this season. Bumbles too were fewer this year than last.

I have however seen increasing numbers of tiny wasplike critters, some sort of mason bee I think, that visits flowers and seems to build a nest in small space such as the holes left by popped rivets in my permanent awning, then it seals the hole with what looks like dried mud; but as I see them "working" dry timber, then flying off to their holes I think they use the chewed wood as a sort of paper to do the sealing.

Strange things happening during the drought, another one was the appearance of what look a small edition of white butterflies, about two thirds the usual size. Very few of the normal size big ones, I was wondering whether the brassica crops the caterpillars feed on were stunted by the drought.
 
 
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