I’m back from my mom’s condominium, where the excessively manicured sprayed and poisoned landscapes are barren of bees and butterflies. So glad to be in my garden where the wild things are. Here is a great big bumblebee busy at work in our front yard.
Everything around the house has been trampled and compacted from the restoration project. Trying seeds to get as many plants as I can, including annuals, to fill in.
Finally started seeds I should have started weeks ago:
Corydalis flavula, Yellow Corydalis, an annual
Cuphea viscosissima, Clammy Waxweed, an annual
Monarda fistulosa, Bee Balm
I've got other seeds stratifying in the fridge. Again, weeks late, but we'll see what happens.
My garden is managed as habitat, not just for "pretty flowers". Aside from aesthetic damage from the work, I worry about the arthropods that make their homes in my garden, especially the ground-nesting bees.
So far, I've seen 6 different bee species flying in my garden. That's encouraging. But my Amelanchier is in full bloom, and there's nothing visiting it. It should be covered with bumble bees, mining bees, and more.
A happy day today for me and "My Little Bees": The Colletes, cellophane bees, have emerged, and by the dozens! This despite having their habitat trampled band compacted during construction.
They are especially numerous in the area that I not only forked, but overturned. There is little activity in the forked-only areas, and none at all in the still-compacted spots.
So, I am relieved, and have hope the population will recover.
Die Scene fand ich lustig.
Oben arbeitet sich Frau gehörnte Mauerbiene nen Wolf und verschliesst eine Brutröhre und unter ihr sitzt ein faules Männchen in einer Röhre und schaut ihr zu.
Wie im richtigen Leben.
😉 #wildbees#WildBienen#MauerBienen#BeesoftheBalcony
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Heavvy traffic in #WildBienenHausen ...
Die Männchen der rostroten #MauerBienen haben sich zum Teil entschlossen, jetzt doch mal auszufliegen und nach dem Wetter zu schauen.
In ein paar Tagen kommen die Weibchen hinterher wenn sich das Wetter hält und der Balkon ist noch nicht aufgeräumt! 😱 #bees#wildbees
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A little community #sciArt#scicomm - I made a version of my leadcutter bees print with two #linocut wild bees (Megachile relativa and Megachile brevis) and leaf prints for the Coxwell Pollinator Gardens! These prints are both about, and a sort of collaboration with leafcutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators,
Sweat bees are quite common here in Canada, and they are known to lick the sweat (salt) from people's skin. If this happens to you, feel lucky that you fed a sweat bee! Here is a sweat bee on a mint plant in our backyard.