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dadgardens

Ground nesting bees

20 years ago

Some ground nesting bees(?) have taken over half of my rose beds. The holes are approximately 1/4 - 3/8 inch in diameter, and I have only seen single bees leave the holes and then return (I may be wrong on numbers of insects to holes - lack of observation time! There are 47 of the holes in roughly figured, 48 square feet of space. The bees are the normal black/yellow - no I haven't seen the faces/eyes yet (I need to bring my reading glasses out to the garden more often!).

Are these good guys or bad guys or possible bad guys, I know I haven't given you much to go on; but I don't want to zap them with permethrin if they are basically harmless (worse still, they may be beneficials, that I don't want to zap)!

I don't think they are yellowjackets; and they are too small (1/2" length) to be hornets.

Dad

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