As I write about this photo, I wonder where the ground-nesting bees or wasps went this year. They never made their yearly appearance. Usually at the beginning of the summer, as the boys assemble to play soccer on our field, the bees show up and stop all play for a few days. There are countless numbers, many hundreds, of them digging holes in the grass. I have read a little bit about them and I think they are laying eggs and eating beetle larvae. I keyed them out one year, but have managed to forget their name. They are the type of creature that the appearance of one of them would go unremarked by humans, while kaboodles of them are remarked upon, usually in the terms of what insecticide to use to kill them. Luckily for them, they don’t stay around very long. Does anyone know anything about their migration patterns? Do the adults die each year having left their egg and larvae offspring in my grass all year, only to show up for a few days as adults?
I wonder.
A long time ago, during one of our camping trips, I sat on a nest of ground bees. OUCH! That created quite a commotion.
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