"I could be wrong but I'm not sure the leafcutters are out yet? "
George P describes them as summer bees - emerging in May. My leafcutter coccons haven't hatched yet. I'll try and get some photos of the bees that aren't red masons but buzz about the boxes.
I tend not to worry about individual bees. They do not have long lives and are prey for a lot of other critters.
What a source of delight the bees are. I'm following @Wild Edges * lead
and trying to keep a log of what I encounter in the garden. So far I
have noted six species of bee. Four nesting in the garden. But my bee ID
skills need a lot of work. There seems to be lots of all black bumbles
that I can't yet ID, small and restless. * Thank you to @Wild Edges for his inspiration, photos and help in all this, our local entomologist.
I'm just glad this stuff is interesting to someone else too.
Thanks @wild edges - I would doubt they are rare anything, but they are so whizzy that it's hard to spot any details.
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I'd be really interested in understanding more about the biodiversity log you have done in your garden - numbers of species, unusual species, glaring absenses and future plans, if you are still involved in this project. Maybe a thread on that, if you fancied it. Thanks
That's part of the problem I have. I set myself the challenge of only including species that I can photograph and positively ID but so many of them just won't sit still. I did eye up some butterfly nets thinking I could catch and release the more zippy bugs but I've got builders leaning over my garden fence every day at the moment and don't want to look like a nutter I'll try and put together a thread though, it'll be useful to remind me of what I was up to last year.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I suspect that looking like a nutter is the leading edge of all human discovery. Embrace it and celebrate, I say. You could think of it as broadening the definitions of mental health.
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I suspect that looking like a nutter is the leading edge of all human discovery. Embrace it and celebrate, I say. You could think of it as broadening the definitions of mental health.