Bees visiting sawdust
The bees and I agree --- when
it's fifty degrees in January, you have to be outside.
We also seem to share an
obsession with sawdust piles. With the whole world
soggy, I can't imagine our fuzzy friends flew all the way around the
trailer just to suck water out of some sawdust, so I assume they're
getting something more interesting. Minerals? Fungi? Any ideas?
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Bees and sawdust
I found our honeybees playing in a pile of sawdust this morning... I'm glad we still have bees this year! But what are they doing in the sawdust? Anyone know? we have melting snow everywhere, so it couldn't be just the water. Strange. They were flipping themselves in it.
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Carolyn
— Wed Mar 6 14:35:18 2013
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Why bees collect sawdust
Carolyn --- This post gives my best guess (with some interesting guesses in the comments as well. If you find anything more definitive, I'd be curious to hear it.
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anna
— Wed Mar 6 15:02:00 2013
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