Today most of our blue bees emerged to find a spring day full of flowers. I don't know how they knew to pick this day, but i do know how to grow the flowers and build bee hotels.
The hotels are easy. Just fill a container with large straws and put in a sunny sheltered location. The bees will find in and fill the straws. If you are lucky and see them emerging another interesting event occurs. The females are the last to emerge and all the males wait around to fertilize them. This occurs as the females emerge and is quite a show. Visualize a few hundred bees hanging around a tube full of straws. If everything goes as planned the bees pollinate flowers all spring and then fill the straws with next years bees. This continues to expand until predator wasps or available flowers limit their population. So far our are still expanding. jeff
