wild bees – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:12:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 wild bees – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Harvesting and Incubating Leafcutter Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/harvesting-and-incubating-leafcutter-bees-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/harvesting-and-incubating-leafcutter-bees-zbwz1802zsau/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:41:33 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3892 I remember as a child finding a small shrub in our wooded backyard with perfectly circular holes cut into the leaves. The leaf had the appearance of Swiss cheese. I remember thinking that the holes were perhaps made by a hungry caterpillar or ant, but the perfectness of the holes was something that I remember […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/harvesting-and-incubating-leafcutter-bees-zbwz1802zsau/feed/ 3 Meet the Leafcutter Bee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/meet-the-leafcutter-bee-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/meet-the-leafcutter-bee-zbwz1802zsau/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:40:56 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3885 About a month ago I had the pleasure of talking with Dave Hunter, owner and founder of Crown Bees, a company that “advocates for, raises, and sells hole-nesting bees that pollinate significantly better than the honeybee.” Dave is very enthusiastic about helping pollinators and has a wealth of knowledge about these important insects. He was […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/meet-the-leafcutter-bee-zbwz1802zsau/feed/ 5 Catching Swarms + Video Tutorial https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/catching-swarms-video-tutorial/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/catching-swarms-video-tutorial/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:25:11 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1710 Capturing swarms is a very exciting way to get more bees for your apiary and it’s much easier than you may have realized.  The reason that it is generally easy is because when bees are swarming and have clustered themselves on a low branch in a tree or bush, they only have one thing on […]

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