Leaf Cutter Bee
While sitting out in the garden recently eating dinner, we were attracted by audible munching noises from our wisteria plant. Further investigation showed a bee-like creature neatly chopping an oval piece out of a leaf then flying away with its prize. It then returned for another piece of leaf, and then several more.
Later research told us that it was indeed a bee—a leaf cutter bee in fact—a solitary but quite friendly creature that likes wisteria, rose and other leaves as nest making material.
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We opened our garden sunshade yesterday and a little green funnel of leaves fell out. When I picked it up it started to disintegrate, so I poked it back under the sunshade, and after a few minutes a bee arrived and began repairing it with little semi-circular bits of leaf. We had heard of leaf-cutter bees, and assumed this was one. It took it about ten minutes to complete the nest with a little trapdoor. We carefully folded and covered the sunshade, and now we have an unusable sunshade!
Frank&Eve