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[matthewdwhite]

Over Southwest Pass, At Burrwood, Plaquemines Parish, LA 12/16

[matthewdwhite]

New Orleans, LA 7/21

[matthewdwhite]

Southwest Pass, Plaquemines Parish, LA 12/16

[teenytinydinosaurfarm]

BEE HOTELS

Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA

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These are hotels for solitary bees, like mason bees. These bees help with pollination. Unlike honey bees, all mason bee females are fertile, and each makes her own nest. No worker bees for these species exist and solitary bees produce neither honey nor beeswax. They are immune from acarine and Varroa mites which prey on hney bees, but have their own unique parasites, pests, and diseases.

Bees emerge from their cocoons in the spring, males first. They remain near the nests waiting for the females. When the females emerge, they mate. The males die, and the females begin provisioning their nests.

Females nest in narrow holes or tubes, most commonly this means hollow twigs, but sometimes abandoned nests of wood-boring beetles or carpenter bees, or even snail shells. They do not excavate their own nests. Cell material be clay or chewed plant tissue.

Females visit flowers to gather pollen and nectar,to build a pollen/nectar provision mass. Once a mass is complete, the bee backs into the hole and lays an egg on atop the mass. Then, she creates a partition of "mud", which acts both a cell cap and as the back of the next cell. The process continues until she has filled the cavity. Female-destined eggs are laid in the back of the nest, and male eggs towards the front.

Once a bee has finished with a nest, she plugs the entrance to the tube, and then may seek out another nest location.

By summer, the larva has consumed all of its provisions and begins spinning a cocoon around itself and enters the pupal stage, then the adult matures either in the fall or winter, while inside its cocoon and hatches as noted in the spring.

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[stoplapdspying]

TOMORROW 12/8 and THURSDAY 12/10- All Out for Drone-Free LAPD Actions!

[stoplapdspying]

The Drone-Free LAPD/No Drones, LA Campaign is currently working to collect thousands of signatures on paper and online. Please sign the petition online and also send it to your friends! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/drone-free-lapd-no-drones-1 We’re seeking the community’s input over LAPD’s newly developed drone arsenal. Please take a short moment to fill out this survey, which will inform our organizing moving forward.