A few days of warm weather, and my mason bees are emerging.
You have to read between the lines on various internet write-ups of bee emergence, but I’m pretty sure what you see above is a crowd of young male bees, doing what young males do best. That is, hanging out, accomplishing nothing, and hoping to get laid.
The male bees emerge first. And I guess they look forward with glad anticipation to the emergence of the female mason bees.
I’m still not entirely sure what the emergence box is for. And I’m not sufficiently interested to stick a camera inside to see what’s going on.
Anyway, we got down to 5F this winter, and it doesn’t seem to have done these over-wintering bees any harm.
My next-most-recent post on bees is here. It’s pretty much a summary of everything I think I know about attracting mason bees.
