{"id":5488,"date":"2016-02-23T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T07:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2016-02-23T23:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T07:07:47","slug":"bee-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2016\/02\/bee-nests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2014, the ecojustice class (gr. 6-8) at our congregation <a href=\"http:\/\/kj6zwr.org\/ecojustice\/ecojustice-habitat\/#beehouses\">made &#8220;bee houses&#8221;<\/a> to provide potential nesting sites for Mason Bees. We kept watch on the bee houses through spring of 2015, but neither I nor the teens observed any nesting activity. (Mason Bees are solitary, and do not nest in hives like the more familiar Western Honeybee.)<\/p>\n<p>But when this year&#8217;s ecojustice class checked on the bee houses last Sunday, it looked like some of the holes are now or had recently been occupied by insects:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316a.jpg\" alt=\"BlogFeb2316a\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316a.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316a-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316b.jpg\" alt=\"BlogFeb2316b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BlogFeb2316b-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Mason Bees use mud and soils to plug up their nesting holes, and these holes do not look like they have mud in them &#8212; the color of the plugs is not the color of any of the nearby soils &#8212; I&#8217;m not convinced that Mason Bees are nesting here. Nevertheless, some organism has definitely moved in to these holes; perhaps further observation will reveal what that organism might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2014, the ecojustice class (gr. 6-8) at our congregation made &#8220;bee houses&#8221; to provide potential nesting sites for Mason Bees. We kept watch on the bee houses through spring of 2015, but neither I nor the teens observed any nesting activity. (Mason Bees are solitary, and do not nest in hives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2016\/02\/bee-nests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bee nests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,430],"tags":[567],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","category-ecojustice","tag-hymenoptera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}