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Moving Into The Bee Hotel
e6filmuser
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The Patchwork Leafcutter Bee Megachile centuncularis is well-known in our gardens, where it often cuts discs out of rose leaves for its nesting material. This population has a more exotic choice. Well, it is quite a posh neigbourhood.
We have one of those over-priced, ready-made units from the local garden centre. I suppose it pays off, as similar bamboo tubes in less-aggregated arrangements have yet to be colonised..
Bees are shown arriving on a single day, some carrying leaf discs, other not. Presumably the latter provide pollen. When sufficient work has been done on construction, the bee turns around and backs in to, presumably, lay an egg.
Some of the bees returning with leaves were less accepting of my presence than others and would land on the roof of the "hotel".
The shot of the "hotel" front show the sealed cells of more than one day's work.
Examples of cut Passiflora and Acer leaves are shown.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105, f16, twin TTL flash, hand-held.
Harold
We have one of those over-priced, ready-made units from the local garden centre. I suppose it pays off, as similar bamboo tubes in less-aggregated arrangements have yet to be colonised..
Bees are shown arriving on a single day, some carrying leaf discs, other not. Presumably the latter provide pollen. When sufficient work has been done on construction, the bee turns around and backs in to, presumably, lay an egg.
Some of the bees returning with leaves were less accepting of my presence than others and would land on the roof of the "hotel".
The shot of the "hotel" front show the sealed cells of more than one day's work.
Examples of cut Passiflora and Acer leaves are shown.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105, f16, twin TTL flash, hand-held.
Harold
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Thanks, Brian.
Harold