New experience for me
We aren't travelling much, so I have to look for my natural history observations at a different scale around my home. Lately, I have been watching the diversity of bees attracted to the flowers in our containers. I also had a chance to see the next generation being provisioned as I watched a solitary bee create its nest and cap it over the course of several days. It would fly up with loafs of pollen and take them in to the top of a bamboo stake. It came and went quickly, but at the end, when it was capping its next, I was able to get a few photos.
The bee flew up with piece of leaf which it appeared to chew into a paste and used it to plug the end of the nest. I hope I have a new set of pollinators in the spring
