Personal. observations by G Fletcher and purchase information for mason bees and Phragmites tubes for their culture
Plants for Pollinators in late May 2016
ARCHIVAL: This post has been re-dated from 2016 in order to position it closer in the blog to Mason Bee Information
The mason bees have almost stopped their work of pollination by now. However several bumblebee species and honey bees were very active around certain plants in the yard this week.
Honey Bee Apis melliferaon Deutchia
Bombus calignosus??Bee on Deutzia gracilis
Bombus sp.
Today the bees preferred the shrub Deutzia gracilis
Two different bee species
Note differing location of colour bands on these bumblebees.
An unidentified bee on Deutzia
A hover fly on Escallonia possibly Lapposyrphus lapponicus
