Homeschooling Is Life! - Leaf Cutter Bees!

• Jun. 1, 2006 - Leaf Cutter Bees!

The weird looking stuff that was under the siding, when we pulled the trim off was the remnants of last years leaf cutter bees nests. Here is a super article about them!

One day my youngest daughter saw the bees carrying something yellow and watched them go into the gap in the trim. She came racing in to tell me. That time, the bee had a perfect little circle of yellow. A petal from a coreopsis or a sunflower. So we watched them and they made a "bee-line" from the garden and back, to the house. They cut lovely little circles out of the rose leaves and carried them the hole in the house, behind the trim. And here, they created their lovely little chambers to lay their eggs in.

So, WalkinFaith, you were the only one who knew! Good for you :)

Although fungus and lichen were pretty, um.....interesting (but wrong) guesses, Dianna and Julie, LOL! (I still love you.)

Ok, so I will get to the rest as soon as I can!

Blessings! Thanks for visiting!

Nancy

Comments

• Jun. 1, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by wardssward

That's pretty awesome about the bees... unless they happened to be under OUR siding. :-) Enjoyed your other pictures, too, especially the barn in front of the mountains. You are SO blessed to be living in Colorado! Hope you find another, bigger place soon.
~Connie

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• Jun. 2, 2006 - Loved your horse on the previous post

Posted by ktneis

We have wasps living in our steel siding and my hubby thinks it is ok. He is not here all day when they get busy and are attacking us in August. They are pretty quiet until then, watch out they are angry. I do not think we should co-habitat with bees and wasps, they should be in our flower gardens not next to my doors and windows. I like your picture of them it is interesting how different they build their homes.

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