Mary and I are having way too much fun editing our forthcoming bee bulletin. With this guide you will be able to, with a little practice, identify different types of bees that visit your garden. Included will be photos and physical descriptions of different types of bees, their specific nesting habits, and unique behaviors that will aid in identification. It's sure to be a NY Times best seller. Thanks Steve for taking the photo!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Bee happy
Mary and I are having way too much fun editing our forthcoming bee bulletin. With this guide you will be able to, with a little practice, identify different types of bees that visit your garden. Included will be photos and physical descriptions of different types of bees, their specific nesting habits, and unique behaviors that will aid in identification. It's sure to be a NY Times best seller. Thanks Steve for taking the photo!
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I'm kinda chicken about being stung by bees! I do like bees though, as I love honey. I like to bake with it instead of white sugar. Maybe I can read and learn from your bulletin and get over my silly fear!
ReplyDeleteHi Michele, We can email you the bee bulletin when it is finished if you want? Native bees are fun to watch for in the garden, and they are not aggressive like wasps.
ReplyDeleteI LIKE THIS PHOTO.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary, I would love to have you e-mail the bulletin. Are wasps and hornets the same thing? (long skinny brown bodies with dangling legs?? Those are the ones that always sting me....but I am kinda scared of all bees. Maybe bees and wasps are not even in the same category? You can tell I listened in school!)
ReplyDeleteGood question, hornets are a type of wasp. Those brown wasps are in the family Vespidae and are very common in Northern MI. Bees and wasps are in the same insect order (Hymenoptera) but they differ a lot in what they do. Wasps are predators who collect insects to feed to their young. Many build paper or mud nests to house their young. Bees are vegetarian! They feed on pollen and nectar and collect this to feed their young. Some bees are social (like honey bees or bumble bees) and others are solitary and the females construct individual nests in cavities or in the soil.
ReplyDeleteWould these be the nests that we find all dug up in the summer (by maybe the skunk)?
ReplyDeleteBumble bees nest below ground in old rodent burrows. You may be finding bumble bee nests that have been dug up!
ReplyDeleteOh! Very interesting Mary....thanks!
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