Happy Earth Day!!
Hope everyone is enjoying the start of Spring.
I just put out my Mason Bee cocoons and set up an outdoor IP camera to watch them. They should hatch within a week or so.
Hope to do better than last year - I had parasitic wasps that laid eggs in the bee tubes and I lost all of the bees. I got a fresh start from a friend that had a surplus of cocoons from her bee houses.
I've been out adding to the bee buffet next to BeeBox. Had some plants indoors over Winter, four of which were starting to take over the windowsill.
I think there may be a Buff-tailed queen nesting about 4 feet behind BeeBox.
There is a sheltered area which I've seen her disappear into on a couple of occasions.
Will know for sure if workers start appearing.
I've been out adding to the bee buffet next to BeeBox. Had some plants indoors over Winter, four of which were starting to take over the windowsill.
I think there may be a Buff-tailed queen nesting about 4 feet behind BeeBox.
There is a sheltered area which I've seen her disappear into on a couple of occasions.
Will know for sure if workers start appearing.
Good that there is evidence of nesting, but it will be disappointing if you don't get a nest in your BeeBox.
I recently encountered some Mining bees in a nearby greenspace. It was kind of neat watching individual bees disappearing into separate "ant" hills. I tried to get some pics or video, but the dogs had their own agenda that day. The Mining bees look like miniature Honey bees.
We're having some problems with some of the native plants that we planted last year. It looks like we have lost the Trilliums. We just thought that they were late, but they have been blooming in the greenspaces for a while now.
The squirrels were very active digging up bulbs in the winter. They even dug up the garlic (which they didn't eat). We'll have to see what else ends up missing 
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