Garden Allies - Ground Nesting Bees

Continuing the series of posts on Garden Allies, this post will be looking at ground bees, a not so well known group of insects that are important crop pollinators. 

What prompted me to write this post was the observation of  a number of mini volcano shaped earth mounds on the lawn this Spring.



Ground Bee Nest - Yet to identify the inhabitant  
We set up a video over one of the holes hoping to catch a view of the comings and goings of the inhabitants and discovered a very small bee at work.  My son Archie put together this short film of the bee, cheers Arch.



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