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A tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million honey bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95, officials said. The bees were mostly contained and the ...
She also says that the mission of her company, Texas Beeworks, is to promote public awareness about bees and beekeepers. Her organization removes bees for free. [3] In 2018, the television quiz show Jeopardy! recorded video clues about bees for an episode of the show. The videos featured Thompson's organization Texas Beeworks.
Bee hotels are a type of insect hotel for solitary pollinator bees, or wasps, providing them rest and shelter. [1] Typically, these bees would nest in hollow plant stems, holes in dead wood, or other natural cavities; a bee hotel attempts to mimic this structure by using a bunch of hollow reeds or holes drilled in wood, among other methods. [1]
A home in Nebraska made plenty of buzz after thousands of bees were removed from its walls. The Omaha Bee Club removed about 6,000 of the insects from a 100-year-old house belonging to Thomas and ...
Various species of solitary bees have different needs. The vast majority of these nest in tunnels dug in bare soil, but carpenter, mason, and leaf cutter bees nest in a tube. Only the latter two types nest in ready-made tubes in a bee hotel. They have species-specific preferences for tube diameter (2–10 mm) and length (about 10 cm).
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Large paper nest, upside down pear shaped, hanging from branches and eaves; also barns and attics. Some yellowjacket species nest in the ground. Very large paper nest in hollow trees, sheltered positions. Has a brown, protective layer when the nest is in an unsheltered position. Also found in barns, attics, hollow walls and abandoned bee hives.