leaf-cutter bees

watch as a leaf-cutter bee builds a nest in a flower pot in my backyard - we enjoyed this little wonder for weeks!

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Education

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• entomology

[slobirder]

how fascinating! thanks so much for this information, and for clarifying that it's a "she" and not a "he", as I'd incorrectly said in the video. I do hope to see them emerge this spring!

[robomantis]

Your Welcome!! I loves this kind of bee!! I make nesting blocks for them. It will be very cool to see them emerge!!! You can make a block for them too!

[slobirder]

Wonderful! Around what month do they emerge? Do you make the nesting block the same way you would for solitary bees --- say, by drilling holes in a piece of wood of a prescribed width and length?

[robomantis]

I saw them during the summer like June- August. yes the blocks are the same. I actually descovered them by making a sample block for mason bees. I used all different widths of drill bit but I will have to double check the measurment. When you drill just drill until there is about 1cm left from the back to the inside of the tunnel.

[robomantis]

She lays multiple eggs in one hole. She collects pollen, makes a pile of it, then lays an egg on it, and then closes off the cell. She will do this many times depending on how big the tube is.