A Different Sort Of Bee

A Flat-tailed Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile mendica) on Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota). A small bee, the female is usually between 1/3 and 1/2 inch and the male is slightly smaller. They eat pollen and nectar from many different flowers, pollinating while they eat.

These bees cut beautiful circles from leaves to line their nests which are built in tubelike cavities — hollow stems, holes in trees, abandoned burrows carved in trees by beetles.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.

2 thoughts on “A Different Sort Of Bee”

    1. Hi Diane! So very good to hear from you! So glad to hear you liked the post on the leaf cutter bee and its picture. So many things in nature to entertain me!

      So very glad you read my posts!
      Bren

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