The European Orchard Bees that I mentioned earlier continue to be busy in their bee hotel. This one is making a secure front door, having laid eggs in the tunnel behind the door.
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Denzil Nature 
What industry! Great little video.
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Thanks Margaret they are such fun to watch.
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Has the Whacker Packer motion down pat 😂
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Indeed, thankfully with less noise.
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Great shot and video! Cool bees.
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They are such fun to watch … for far too long!
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The B channel!
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Wow, fabulous video of this industrious little bee!
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Thanks Sarah, and she brings in all that mud for the front door herself.
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Cool video! Thanks for linking to your earlier post as I had missed it. Great close-up shots!
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Thanks Toby, thankfully they are so busy that they ignore a rude cameraman getting close.
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Give that bee a reward for working so hard.
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You mean move her up from the Bee-List to the A-List?
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Two puns up, Denzil. Bee-utifully painful.
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There are a lot of bees out in our back yard. It turns out — little did I know — that the farms along the river (it runs about a mile behind our house) are bee keepers and their bees wander. Right now, they are enjoying the violets and dandelions. They tried to create a hive in one of our feeders last fall and I had to take the feeder inside. The bees were upset, but they can’t nest on our deck. We aren’t setup for bee keeping. Good thing they are very tame! I don’t remember what kind of bees they are, but they were originally European. I was expecting to get stung when I put my hand in the middle of this big surge of bees, but they just milled around. I hope they found their way back home. It’s less than a mile of flying to their home farms. I do love the fresh honey.
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I’m sure they picked up your friendly vibes Marilyn and so didn’t sting you. And yes, you can’t beat fresh honey. Used to love eating the honeycomb as a child too.
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It turned out those “farm” bees are quite gentle. Also, I moved slowly. I didn’t want to frighten them — but I also knew they couldn’t be allowed to build a nest on our tiny deck. I almost considered taking up bee keeping, but the weather has been so unstable and so cold at night and the care the bees need is more than I feel ready to provide. Still, maybe climate warming might make bee keeping less strenuous if I know we aren’t going to get 10 feet of snow every winter.
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How wonderful is that!
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Thanks Aletta. Currently they have sealed up about 20 of these tubes, with their eggs cozily protected inside.
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Absolutely wonderful!
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Dear little creatures and so very important. Friends of ours recently set up their own hives and were very excited when they harvested their first jar of honey.
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That must be so thrilling for them. Mine are unfortunately not honey makers!
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