Get a room, you two, and don't burrow through all of the wainscoting!
Friday, June 12, 2020
Talking 'Bout the Bees and the Bees
We have several wooden structures at my typical workplace which play host to carpenter bees (here in the Northeastern US, they'd be Xylocopa virginica, which are decent pollinators, but terrible houseguests. These large bees don't have queens, and the drones are approximately the same size as the females. They are a common sight here, though for the first time in my life, I appear to have caught two of them in flagrante delicto:
Get a room, you two, and don't burrow through all of the wainscoting!
Get a room, you two, and don't burrow through all of the wainscoting!
Bonking bees!
ReplyDeleteNice photo, and glad to know your workplace is bee-friendly. We need them so badly.
Thank you for this intimate peek at Carpenter Bee Romance. I've been wondering about them for years and never bothered to look it up; they conduct a multi-participant Bee-In (you may not be old enough to get that ref - am I being obscure?) around our old house's big wooden front porch every spring.
ReplyDeleteI kmow they're attracted to it as a splendid site for boring sawdust out of the big pillars supporting the front corners, but I could never tell what their obviously passionate zooming and chasing was about. Territory? Establishing nesting sites? But now I think it's probably about love. Go to it, guys and girls.
Nice photo, and glad to know your workplace is bee-friendly. We need them so badly.
ReplyDeleteOur grounds staff is low-impact, they are not big on pesticides and herbicides. We have a varied biome onsite.
I've been wondering about them for years and never bothered to look it up; they conduct a multi-participant Bee-In (you may not be old enough to get that ref - am I being obscure?) around our old house's big wooden front porch every spring.
I got the reference via pop culture. They DO bore pretty big holes in everything.