Leaf-cutter bee laying eggs
A little bee activity today for the first time in a while – they haven’t been enjoying the wet weather.
Here we see a leaf-cutter bee backing out of the tube she’s been working on (two pictures on the left), turning round (center right), and backing back into the tube (far right) in order to lay an egg. Click on the thumbnails for larger images.
The other things you can see: tubes with a small black mark above them are tubes which she has already laid eggs into and sealed, this year. Sealed tubes with no black mark are ones which were laid into last year and did not hatch. Tubes with a hole in the leaves are where bees hatched earlier in the summer.
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