{"id":16994,"date":"2014-06-16T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2014-06-16T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T05:51:26","slug":"red-mason-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/red-mason-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mason Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that our <a title=\"Building a Bee Hotel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/building-bee-hotel\/\">bee hotel<\/a> has some new residents.<\/p>\n<p>Since installing it earlier in the year a few spiders have taken up residence in and around it, it&#8217;s roof has been used for sunbathing by fledgling sparrows, and the magpies stole a load of the bamboo canes and smaller sticks to add to their nest, but now we have some bees in it. I haven&#8217;t had chance to spend any time getting decent\u00a0photos of them yet, but I did snap a few quick ones with my compact camera on Sunday\u00a0<a title=\"Father's Day - Up a Pole and Down a Hole\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/fathers-day-pole-hole\/\">whilst working in the garden<\/a>. As far as I can tell, they look like Red Mason Bees<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16994 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bee-Hotel.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bee-Hotel-120x90.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bee Hotel\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bee-Hotel-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bee-Hotel-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bee-Hotel.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-16995'>\n\t\t\t\tBee Hotel\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/solitary-bees.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/solitary-bees-120x74.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Solitary Bees\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/solitary-bees-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/solitary-bees-550x343.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/solitary-bees.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-16996'>\n\t\t\t\tSolitary Bees\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bee-in-a-hole.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bee-in-a-hole-120x90.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red Mason Bee\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bee-in-a-hole-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bee-in-a-hole-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bee-in-a-hole.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-16997'>\n\t\t\t\tRed Mason Bee\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>You can just about see one of them flying into a bamboo cane in one of the photos above and if you look closely you can see one inside one of the canes as well. There is\u00a0also a cane at the bottom left with what looks like a store of pollen in it.<\/p>\n<h1>The Red Mason Bee<\/h1>\n<p>The Red Mason Bee is a small, solitary\u00a0bee which nests in hollow plant stems, and also in holes in cliffs, or\u00a0the crumbling mortar of old buildings. They are\u00a0\u00a0covered in dense gingery hair and the males are smaller than the females. The males also have a white tuft of hair on their faces. There are\u00a0many similar species of masonry bee that are difficult to identify, but the Red\u00a0Mason Bee is common in England and Wales, so I&#8217;m assuming that is what we have. If anyone knows differently from these terrible photos then let please correct me.<\/p>\n<p>Once mated, each female Red Mason Bee builds its own nest and makes cells within it from\u00a0mud and pollen. She lays a single egg in each cell until the cavity is full. The larvae hatch and develop, pupating in autumn and hibernating over winter\u00a0before emerging\u00a0from late March onwards. Red Mason Bees feed on\u00a0pollen and nectar.<\/p>\n<h1>Hotel Improvements<\/h1>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see them there even if they are quite common and has motivated me to chop up some more bamboo canes to continue filling the bee hotel with more cavities. I still haven&#8217;t got around to drilling holes in the blocks of wood in it yet, mainly because I don&#8217;t have any drill bits long enough and don&#8217;t really want to have to buy some just for this, so still need to borrow some.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly encouraging to see that it is being used as it should be though as often these things are built and sit in the garden doing nothing. This project seems to have worked though, so not only was it fun to do with Morgan one weekend, but it is now adding to the biodiversity in our garden and hopefully helping bees and the rest of the local wildlife in the process. Good hey!?<\/p>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?rt=tf_cw&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F7c841a81-acfb-4a11-a998-558788cc43a8&#038;Operation=GetScriptTemplate\"> <\/script> <noscript><a HREF=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?rt=tf_cw&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F7c841a81-acfb-4a11-a998-558788cc43a8&#038;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.co.uk Widgets<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that our bee hotel has some new residents. 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