These bee houses can be made of wood blocks or cardboard tubes, and they are used by bees in the family Megachilidae. This group includes leaf cutters, mason bees, resin bees and a variety of other ...

“They will find places to nest, but when we install these houses and take care of them, we easily see the activities of the bees,” she said. “It’s really fun to see leaf-cutter bees flying ...

A bee looks like she is riding a flying broomstick as she takes a piece of leaf she has carefully cut back to her nest. The leaf-cutter bee uses her sharp jaws to cut perfect semi-circles out of ...

You’ve probably seen plants with leaves chomped into postage stamp edges. Those perforations are appearing now as leaf-cutter bees build nests. The females bite little chunks in foliage and carry it ...

but the bees that are drawn to bee houses are principally species of mason and leaf-cutter bees. There are approximately 3,600 species of wild bee in the United States. The most conspicuous type ...

Duce and Rusk, shows the work of a leaf-cutting bee. Evidently the specialised and peculiar habit of cutting out pieces of leaf to use in forming the nest was as highly developed, perhaps ...

New World owner Julie Broderick visited Warepa School on Monday to present it with a ''pollination package'' or miniature bee house and 75 cocoons of leaf-cutter bees as part of the Little Garden ...