Yellow-face bees nest in aerial cavities, such as walls and hollow stems, and line their nests with abdominal secretions. Join the North East Ladybird Spot today and help protect these colourful insects across the North East Join the North. Honey bees are easily recognised by their slim, sandy thorax and black abdomen with golden-amber bands. Ok, so pollination is not essential for pineapple production - and farmers tend not to grow their crops from seeds. Cuckoo bees are specialised on a certain group or species, flying at the same time and requiring the same amount of pollen.

Because they were around all the way back when flowers were only recently evolved (unlike bees, which popped up 100 million or so years later), beetles tend to be very important pollinators of some of our more ancient plants - including those of the magnolia family such as nutmeg. A lot of bee species can’t be found in the wild, but must be created by crossbreeding other bee species. Ground-nesters, such as mining bees, can be found in lawns, along paths, cliff faces and on sunny banks. In early Spring, we often receive enquiries about potential sightings of native Scottish honey bees.Some can be hard to identify, so let's take a look at some of the more distinctive and common types of solitary bee in the UK. The female chocolate mining bee (the larger of the two bees) has tufts of hair on the hind legs - the scopa. The female’s larvae remain within these cells until the following year and emerge as fully-formed adults, ready to mate and start the cycle again. Andrena scotica females are similar in size to a honey bee ( Apis mellifera), larger than most of its congeners.

One problem for both the bats and the tequila industry, in the long run, is that demand for more tequila means that agave plants are grown from clones which have their stalks cut before pollination can occur. A long-haul truck clocks up the miles as it journeys across the land, dealing with the ebb and flow of commuters around it.Bees generally come in two kinds: solitary bees, which need single-bee nests and produce no resources, but are useful for breeding, and gregarious bees, which need beehives and produce honeycombs and honey. Carrion beetles are attracted to those smells - after all they do eat dead, decomposing things - and therefore some flowers have tuned in to receive a pollination service. Tobacco plants have been engineered to manufacture an alluring perfume of insect sex pheromones, which could be used to confuse would-be pests looking for love and reduce the need for harmful pesticides. With our essential Trees for Bees pack you can create a wildlife haven for bees and other pollinators.