Very cool weather continues. Both condos #1 & #2 had bees swarming around. I checked the cocoon cache and found many bees had emerged.
I have 3 large Winter Daphne bushes. They are covered in fragrant white flowers. A large number of daffodil flowers are also blooming. A few dozen hyacinth flowers are blooming. All the flowers must be contributing to the mason bees source of pollen and nectar.
Tulips, blueberries and pear trees have not yet begun to bloom, so they have not contributed to the mason bees pollen.
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Photo of a mason bee. This one was investigating
a routed-wood-tray, she never used it
Heleborus,
always flower starting in February
Winter Daphne: very fragrant flowers.
You can smell the flowers from 40 feet.
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