Non-honey bees

My activity on this page is inversely proportional to the activity of bees in the field in Poland… Now it’s time for mating balls. Fascinating clumps of male solitary bees, with a female (so I assume) somewhere inside. Males are crazy, chasing potential mates (and sometimes also everything remotely resembling a mate, for example other species of bees). When they are present in large numbers, like in nesting aggregations, they can scare people but they’re absolutely harmless.

Solitary bee (and, basically, all bee) males don’t have a stinger, and females do, but use it only to defend themselves when they have no other options. They don’t attack when you come near their nest, like honeybees do. Did you already know that? Tell it to your friends and family who might not know!