Country diary: mining bees are getting down to business

📆 03/04/2021 09:28:00
📰 The Guardian

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Airedale, West Yorkshire: In my local park, between the roots of a horse chestnut, an early mining bee community is beginning to thrive

umblebees have begun to bong off the kitchen window. It’s bee season, or something like it, and as spring creeps slowly northward there are about 270 species gearing up to demonstrate just how many ways there are of being a bee. Of those, about 250 are solitary bees: most make their nests in the ground; some find homes higher up, usually in old beetle burrows; a few occupy disused snail shells, sealing off the nesting chambers with chewed foliage.

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