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What an interesting article! We have plenty
of wild bees, but I'd never thought how much they are limited in town, or what a
surburbanite could do to help them. Last year the Ayers pears that fell
from a tree in town were heavily covered with honeybees and bumblebees, but not
one yellowjacket or hornet. I thought then how people being neatniks
interfere with smaller creatures.
We have some fuzzy little ground
nesting bees that work a flat muddy spot where we walk all the time. They
dig their little vertical holes there to start next year's generation.
What I find quite interesting is that it seems our dogs scrape up the clay with
their front teeth and eat it. There are several places the dogs do this,
and I am quite sure they are finding the little bee grubs or pupae good
eating. I never see them eat dirt anywhere else. Donna
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