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I learned something important today: digging up (some) bee nests is hard work! With help from Jerry and Glenn Hall we accomplished our goal of collecting a few Hesperapis larvae. We also saw a neat snake. All in all, it was a great day. Tomorrow we pack an axe and machete and head out on our own to look for Lithurgopsis larvae, taking our lead from Rozen and Hall's 2014 description of the nests within old agave stems (pdf here). I have an immense amount of respect for the folks that take the time to study and describe the nesting biology of all of these wonderful and lesser-understood bees. - Hollis Comments are closed.
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