These bees nest in old trees in the wild, but in urban landscapes, a bee house can provide similar habitat. These bee houses can be made of wood blocks or cardboard tubes, and they are used by bees in ...

Colorado has nearly 1,000 different species of bees. Now, native bee hotels are creating a lot of buzz. Even Costco now sells bee houses. Also known as pollinator homes, these small rustic structur… ...

Scientists have noted instances of leaf-cutter bees using plastic waste to construct their nests and one research group suggested such behavior could be an 'ecologically adaptive trait' and ...

Like most bees, this leaf-cutting bee, Megachile brevis, is solitary, with each female building her own nest cells out of bits of leaves and petals without the help of a worker caste.These bees earn ...

"Leaf-cutter bees as plastic recyclers? Not a good idea, say scientists." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 / 201103191004.htm (accessed May 17, 2025).

Everyone is familiar with honeybees, an Old World bee long established in North America, but the bees that are drawn to bee houses are principally species of mason and leaf-cutter bees.

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 ...

The leaf herewith figured, collected in the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado, by two of my students, Messrs. Duce and Rusk, shows the work of a leaf-cutting bee.

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 ...

You’ve probably seen plants with leaves chomped into postage stamp edges. As a solitary bee, they don’t defend their nests like honeybees do, and they’re actually even better at pollinating plants ...