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Posts Tagged: Leafcutting bees

Purple Paradise

If you want to attract insects to your garden, plant an artichoke and let it flower. You'll get...

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Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10:10 PM

Comments: 2

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: leafcutting bees (4), Megachile (2), Robbin Thorp (4)

Bed Check!

All winter long my bee condo housed 16 tenants...and one earwig. And quite comfortably, too, thank...

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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM

Comments: 0

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: leafcutting bees (4), Matthew Shepherd (1), Megachile (2), Robbin Thorp (4), Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation (1)

Snug as a Bug in a...Bee Condo

When you try to attract leafcutting bees (Megachile spp.) to your bee condos, you may also attract...

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Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 9:37 PM

Comments: 1

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Leafcutting bees (4), Robbin Thorp (4), solitary mason wasps (1)

Home Invasion!

When you install bee condos--those wooden blocks with holes drilled in them to attract nesting...

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Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM

Comments: 0

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee condos (1), blue orchard bees (1), earwigs (1), leafcutting bees (4), Robbin Thorp (4)

 

 

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