Hi there, i recently bought a Pyracanthus to plant. It was in a little square plastic pot and I'd left it on my garden table for a few days. I noticed what i thought was a brown & black wasp kept flying to the pot and burrowing into one of the corners, after another few days it started flying in with leaves and taking them into the burrow. Was fascinating to watch. However my pie Pyracanthus needed planting so i had to take it out of it's pot to go into the ground, sure enough there was a little nest of leaves leading down from the burrow. Later on what i now know was a poor solitary bee, return to find his home gone and i felt so terribly guilty. Next time I'll leave the pot alone and take one for the team :-/
Some of my tubes in my bee house have sealed ends but what happens next? Should I put it in the shed in the winter, then do I buy/make new tubes for next year?
Just found that a bee has laid its eggs and there is a lava in a leaf tube, in a pot of Geum. Same place as the last time, just a different plant pot. No idea if they hatched last time.
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Some of my tubes in my bee house have sealed ends but what happens next? Should I put it in the shed in the winter, then do I buy/make new tubes for next year?
Thanks for any info
Just found that a bee has laid its eggs and there is a lava in a leaf tube, in a pot of Geum. Same place as the last time, just a different plant pot. No idea if they hatched last time.
Just put what you think will attract bees, look how they do it the wild.
I have a mason bee that uses a post in the garden, there was screw hole
already there, so it's lovely when you see that they have left the nest.