Did you know this about bees ? 🐝

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[00:00:00]Just here is something really awesome.

[00:00:02]This is a bee hotel that you can actually see the bees and there's a bee in there now and I'm going to show you.

[00:00:07]You ready? Lift up this cover and just in there you see that?

[00:00:13]There is a mason bee, a red mason bee.

[00:00:17]And she has laid one little compartment within her chamber. That yellow stuff you can see there is what we call bee bread.

[00:00:25]That is a loaf of pollen. And within that loaf of pollen is a single egg that will hatch into a grub. And she will repeat that process until that chamber is absolutely full up with eggs and pollen in each chamber. And one of these solitary bees can do the equivalent pollination of 160 honey bees. Solitary bees are the important bees of the bee world. They really are. Now, these guys will lay quite a lot and the ones that and then they'll die. The queens will die. The males will die after mating the females. And then the female will go on to work hard laying her eggs and gathering pollen and then she'll die.

[00:01:03]And then next year these will hatch and repeat the process. It's absolutely awesome, isn't it? And these solitary bees, these red mason bees, will actually gather the pollen on their tummies. And because they gather so much pollen, they're very messy and therefore they are better pollinators. And also, they do not sting because the ovipositor on a honey bee is adapted is an egg-laying tool that's been adapted to become a sting because the honey bees want to protect their hive and only the queen bee in a honey bee hive is laying the eggs.

[00:01:31]Whereas this queen in here, well, she's not really a queen, but this female bee in here, she's actually laying eggs in there. So, her sting doesn't work the same. So, they're completely harmless to have around your house and they are super pollinators. So, I'm really looking forward to seeing this. And there's another bee in there just having a little rest as well.

[00:01:49]So, it's a long old subject, solitary bees, but absolutely fascinating.

[00:01:53]Solitary bees are the heroes of the bee world. And bumblebees, of course. I think there's 24 species of bumblebee 224 species of solitary bee, something like that. And then one species which is honeybee, which are non-native. They are farmed insects. So, yeah. That's where it's at if you want to care for your bees, solitary bees and bumblebees. Get wild.