Burrowing bees

evening everyone. I have just done some research and discovered that I apparently have a burrowing bee as a new resident in my terrace.
It is happily excavating a hole in the soil of one of my pots of succulents. He’s tiny and really interesting to watch (he can move stones much heavier than it can be!), all the same is the bee or it’s offspring likely to do any actual harm to the plants, or just make a mess of my nicely arranged white pebbles?
any ideas?
It is happily excavating a hole in the soil of one of my pots of succulents. He’s tiny and really interesting to watch (he can move stones much heavier than it can be!), all the same is the bee or it’s offspring likely to do any actual harm to the plants, or just make a mess of my nicely arranged white pebbles?
any ideas?
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She’s digging a tunnel and she’s planning on laying some eggs down in there. When the egg hatches, the baby bee will find that mum has left it some food in the fridge and it will tuck into that. And later, when it’s bigger, it will emerge from the tunnel and fly off to find another solitary bee for a bit of rumpy pumpy.😘
No great damage done to your garden in the great scheme of things really.😊
Life is not all a bed of roses for the solitary bee, though
http://wildlifearticles.co.uk/whos-laying-nest-crafty-nest-parasites-bees/
I once knew an old beekeeper, a neighbour, in Sheffield where I grew up. I had shown an interest in bees and so, one day, he invited me to join him when he opened up one of his hives. I was about 17 at the time.
He showed me the queen and the workers. He said that they were all female. They were all busy busy busy bees.
Then he showed me a male bee. It was just sitting about doing nothing.
He laughed and said “see, all blokes do is bugger abaht all day while women ger on wi’ work”.
😁