Biology and Behavior
Leafcutting Bees, common name for bees that use pieces of leaves or flower petals to construct their nests. Most common leafcutter bees are approximately the size of the common honeybee, although they are somewhat darker with light bands on the abdomen. Leafcutter bees are not aggressive and have a mild sting that is used only when they are handled. Leafcutter bees cut the leaves of plants. They use them to line their nests, which are constructed in a variety of places, such as tunnels in the ground and under stones. The cut leaf fragments are used to form nest cells. Leafcutter bees are solitary bees, meaning that they don't produce colonies as do social insects. Instead, individual female leafcutter bees do all the work of rearing. This includes digging out nesting areas, creating nest cells and providing their young with food. Adult females may live up to two months and lay some 35 to 40 eggs during this time. Digger Bee, common name for a group of robust, fast-flying, ground-nesting bees with velvety fur. Digger bees visit a wide variety of flowers and are important in pollination. They are also called long horned bees due to the exceptionally long antennae of the males.
Digger bees range from the size of a honey bee to as large as a bumble bee. These bees mostly nest in the ground and line their brood cells (compartments for offspring) with a wax like secretion. Neither species is very aggressive or hard to control.
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