New generation emerges at bee hotel
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In this video a native bee breaks its way out of the cell its mother created and sealed a year ago. It uses its mouth parts to remove the resin seal, eventually enabling it to fly off.
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Ever seen a bee with red eyes?
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A close up look at how this native bee uses leaf material to create a seal that completes her series of brood cells in the hole of a bee hotel.
Read MoreNest building under way in our 'bee hotels'
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Watch a female Megachile ferox (native bee) working to create her nest in one of our bee hotels. And update on the roosting male M. ferox seen nearby at night.
Read MoreMy Scene - Bees, of course
/Had a chat with Ben Robson from the Border Mail and here's the article that resulted.
Thanks heaps Ben, and also to Tara Goonan for taking the pic.
Image: page 3 of the Pulse section, Border Mail, Sat 17 November 2013.
Click image to view larger version (337kb, pdf).
