Jaci Dawn

Don has discovered new bees in the yard. At least he tells me they are bees. I haven’t seen them yet.

But I have seen the holes in the ground where they live.

Don told me where there were several holes, so I went out to see if I could see these mystery bees. Of course, the sun had already disappeared behind the clouds and all sensible bees had gone to bed for the night. But I had no problem finding the colony.

Admittedly, these could be earthworm holes, but they were in the same vicinity as the other holes (the dug-out ones), and there were several of them together, so I included them in my investigations.

This is a bee’s nest.

If these are like our little shiny green agopostemon bees, then they are stingerless. I am going to assume they are for now, since Murphy hasn’t been stung and he trots over this section of yard several times in a day.

Donald says these bees have a black abdomen and a black-and-gold thorax, and they’re closer to honey bee size. Again, I didn’t see one, so I don’t know. It definitely bears watching, however.

The more bees we can encourage, the better the world will be. (Especially if they don’t sting because Murphy is allergic to bees stings.)

That’s all I wanted to share. Holes in the ground. 🙂