Partially-unwrapped paper drinking straw revealing line of cylindrical, multicolored bee cocoons covered in frass and pollen.

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   Colin Purrington (colinpurrington@flipping.rocks)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 06:26:09 JST Colin Purrington

   I've been sorting through the nests at my insect hotels and was happy to find some filled with cocoons of Osmia georgica, a native mason bee. You can recognize them by the bright green partitions made from chewed leaves and from their beautiful orange frass. They provision nests with pollen from the Asteraceae. #bees #insects #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #entomology #nature #Hymenoptera