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Native Metallic Green Sweat Bee
AGAPOSTEMON: METALLIC GREEN SWEAT BEE by Jessica of TheBeesWaggle.com The green sweat bee is a beautiful native bee that comes out to pollinate from spring to fall. These beauties typically nest underground in tunnels, which are sometimes adjacent to many other sweat bee nests. They will sometimes even share an entrance into many diverging nesting […]
Pollinators Support Biodiversity
Importance of Pollinators by Jessica of The Bees Waggle Biodiversity is the variety of life. It showcases the relationships between all life forms on Earth. It is the web of life, connecting all life on Earth in an interdependent web of function, purpose, and necessity. It can be a protective mechanism against catastrophic failure of […]
Lives of Solitary Bees
Lives of Solitary Bees by The Bees Waggle Do solitary bees such as Mason Bees and Leafcutter Bees live through the winter? Well, to put it simply, no. The mason and leafcutter bees you have seen flying from flower to flower and back to their nesting holes will die off, and the egg cells they […]