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Posts Tagged: nesting bees
The Cavities You Want To Have
My last post discussed ways to provide habitat for ground-nesting bees, which comprise about 70 percent of California's native bee fauna. And the other 30 percent? They are referred to as cavity-nesting, since they lay their eggs above ground in twigs, abandoned beetle galleries, and other tree...
Horticultural Practices and the Bee Garden
Good horticultural practices are important to the success of any garden. In bee gardens, though, we need to do things a bit differently, as some common practices may not be best for the bees. When most of us think of bees and pollination the managed European honey bee, Apis mellifera, comes to...