Paper Wasps Have a Very Interesting Social Structure and Lifestyle explains how these beautiful wasps over winter and how they start new colonies in spring. It also touches on their complex social structure.
Wild Honey Bees Have an Interesting History and Lifestyle explains how honey bees came to the New World and where they came from. It also describes their social structure and lifestyle.
The Common Eastern Bumblebee is a Powerful Pollinator discusses the life cycle and the life style of the most common bumblebee in eastern North America. It also explains why these bees are such great pollinators that they are sometimes raised for use in agriculture.
The Beautiful Five Banded Thynnid Wasp is Great for Gardens! gives readers some basic information about these interesting insects and explains why they are so helpful in gardens. It also discusses the author’s first encounter with them on a nature walk.
This is National Honey Bee Day and It’s Very Important tells readers about the history of this date and explains why honey bees are important to the environment and to mankind. Then it gives readers a few ways to celebrate this important yearly event.
A Beautiful Two Spotted Bumble Bee Searches for a Meal is a short video of a bumble bee probing several small flowers on a button bush ball while looking for nectar.
Honey Bees Have an Incredibly Complex Social Structure discusses some basic information about the social structure of a honey bee hive. Some of the information is quite surprising!
The Organ Pipe Mud Dauber is Really Great for Gardens explains how this unusual, black wasp helps gardens by pollinating flowers and helps gardeners by killing spiders.
Honey Bees are Incredible and Amazing gives readers insight to the author’s experience watching several new hives being set up in an organic honey business. It explains how the bees are transported, move into the new hive, and how the new hive is set up.
Pseudodynerus quadrisectus is a Beautiful, Nonaggressive Wasp tells readers about this interesting and useful wasp. It also explains the differences in behavior of solitary and social wasps, and how these wasps help your garden.
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