The mud nests are unlikely to be anything the giant resin bees are
interested in. You can see the small exit holes indicating that wasps have
left them--I would carefully brush them away, and collect the debris, which
will include dead spiders and such. Not sure why the resin bees would be
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This looks to me like the giant resin bee *Megachile sculptaris*
In eastern North America they nest in old carpenter bee burrows, which are
typically chewed into timbers.
On Thursday 11 July 2024 at 15:38:07 UTC-4 ktotten wrote:
> I work at a historic house and recently we have seen several bees
