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1 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Also known as Pieris, it is an early blooming plant. This is very important to me due to the kind of Bees I help raise. In February or Mach these flowers bloom and give the Bees a great nectar and pollen source. Since the Bees show up early on in th...
31 May 2020 2 minute read 5 comments Drache
Today I want to show my home for bees in my garden. Last year I purchased some "ready to go" bee-homes from a hardware store and placed them at a sheltered position under a roof. They do their job good, but soon I discovered that not all sections of...
28 May 2020 4 minute read 3 comments Solominer
While the Bees were busy, I mostly used my visual light camera to take video and pictures. Though I figured I should also take a few pictures with my infrared camera. I was expecting them to almost all be blurry, as using this infrared filter on my c...
26 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I am really glad the Mason Bees are making use of the bee boards I constructed for them last year. I left the old bee homes out so the Bees inside could emerge. The homes with holes in the mud are spots where previous Bees have already left for the...
23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer
A few of the bee boards has had its holes completely filled in, this is great as they are taking to what I built for them. I see mud all the way to the front of the opening, one of those tunnels is completely filled in. Mission complete by a ms Maso...
16 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Solominer
I built a bee house last year for the Solitary Bees, though this is not a bee hive. Its just a place for me to place boards and let them traverse between the boards and nearby by flowers and sources of mud. I leave my Lumix GH3 camera set up on a tr...
16 May 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Solominer
I took these pictures in late March when the Bees were busy finding mud and pollen to build their homes. These Solitary Bees will fly back and forth from their homes to places that they find mud. Building cells within the holes in the pictures. The a...
9 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Solominer
Solitary Bees were emerging from their cocoons and starting to stretch their wings, over the next few weeks they would go back and forth from flowers to their homes to build a place to raise their offspring. Included in the cover is a picture o...
4 May 2020 4 minute read 2 comments jday1235
Welcome to my NBoNA blog, today is about bumble bees (Bombus spp.)! In the United States and Canada, we have more than 40 different species of bumble bees, all falling into the genus Bombus. They share a family (Apidae) with honey bees (Apis mellif...
4 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
As I was walking through my Asparagus rows, I saw a lone bee, probably a Mason Bee just resting on some wood chips. It was probably collecting mud to make homes for its offspring. And then resting in the sun before heading off to its next location....
