Videos about wild bees

Nesting walls

How bees are nesting during spring in Villeurbanne, more than 100 species have been found in this very urban site.

 

Reproduction

A short sequence showing a male bee Andrena being pseudocopuler with orchid flower.

Ophrys lutea - pollination by sexual deception (2) - Nikon D3s [1] from NJ Vereecken [2] on Vimeo [3].

 

Nesting

80 % of bees nest in the soil

ANDRENA VAGA [4] from Jean-Claude Hardy [5] on Vimeo [3].

 

Buzz -- a story of bees [6] from Rob Sheppard [7] on Vimeo [3].

But also in different materials

Like snail shells : this video shows a small Protosmia that nests in empty snail shells, and a male Megachile (Chalicodoma) siculum found asleep in the floral tube of Iris atropurpurea, one of the endemic Iris Israel.

Wild bees of Israël (2) - Nikon D3s [8] from NJ Vereecken [2] on Vimeo [3].

As in birds, there are bees that cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other bees.

Here a Nomada lathburiana, a cuckoo bee, on a nest of Andrena vaga.

Nomada lathburiana [9] from Jean-Claude Hardy [5] on Vimeo [3].