Danny Gibson from Northern Ireland wrote in to share pictures of a leafcutter bee he had been watching in his garden. Thank you Danny!
by Danny Gibson
(Northern Ireland)
I
found a leafcutter in my garden this past summer, so I decided to put up a
bamboo solitary bee nest and see if I could get them to hang around.
I also got some lavender plants to give a good food source. Not long after
putting the nest up on the wall, I had three bees nesting!
Here are some pictures of the leafcutters on my lavender. I didn't realise how enjoyable it would be to
encourage wild bee nests in my own garden.
Danny
My comment: Thank you Danny. Lovely photographs, and so glad to hear about your success with the solitary bee house. Bee houses are a great way to encourage solitary bees to nest in the garden.
Leafcutters are wonderful to watch too.
If you found this page helpful or interesting, I'd really be grateful if you would share it with others - if not this page, perhaps another, such as Gardening For Bees.
Thank you so much :) .