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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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That's awesome. Bees scare me to death. I often see them in my backyard and run away from them. Lol When do they attack? What if they built their hive in your garden? Don't they start attacking then?
LoL, no, solitary bees are all about pollinating, and even that they do delicately. And they don’t build hives. Nor do they make honey.
Ooohh, can you tell I don't know anything about bees? Lol Thank you
Life is full of opportunities to learn. "Gotta learn something new everyday." Here's a bit more: There are about 6000 solitary bees that live on the NA continent. Most of them make small tunnels in the ground, and some carve holes in wood, e.g. trees, posts, etc. The ground dwelling ones on average go about 6 inches deep. So that woven plastic "landscape cloth" interferes with them. If they are beneath it when installed, they can't get out. If they are above it they can't make proper homes for their babies. Happy Spring!!
Wow, that's fascinating. Thank you.
Bees will typically leave you bee (ha) if you leave them alone.
It's wasps that are assholes.
I got stung by 3 of them once and it hurt bad. I'd learned from my late mother to wash an insects bite/sting right away so it doesn't swell(I think it relates to washing off whatever chemicals they release onto the skin when they sting you). So I immediately washed their stings and they didn't swell. It was painful, though.
Haha, these ones are so shy I have problems taking pictures of them. I get that people are scared by insects and especially anything wasp/beelike. But there is really no need to :)