love those native bees!

Notice the very circular pieces cut out of the rose leaf? That is from the leaf cutter bee which is a native bee. The roll that circle of leaf into a little cradle inside her burrow and lay her eggs in the cradles. Fascinating stuff - roses are their favourite leaves, and I don't at all mind sharing with them.
Now I'm all ready to drop the colour for a month of FoR in Feb.

[Diana]

Fabulous shot with lovely framing and interesting story of you native Bees.

[julia]

This is interesting my Son has just bought a 'leaf cutter bee' house and lavae and are just waiting for them to hatch .. they make a very neat job of cutting the leaves..

[KoalaGardens🐨]

@julzmaioro how fascinating - that will be great learning

[Fr1da]

Great News about the native bee tastes !

[Monique]

Interesting info

[Beryl Lloyd]

Such a beautiful rose , capture and presentation , and interesting info re the "leaf cutter bee ".

[Valerie Chesney]

Lovely rose & I am always learning something here at 365

[Merrelyn]

Hmm, this reminds me that I haven't noticed any of their activity in my garden. I hope they're still around!

[Steve Chappell]

Beautiful shot, interesting about the cutter bee

[gloria jones]

Great pov, petal details

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful rose and a great shot and so interesting about the bees.

[Nina Ganci]

impressive, never knew a bee could do that
neat capture and details

[Carole Sandford]

Lovely rose & info about the bees!

[Mallory]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Beautiful shot

[Jean]

Beautiful. I can almost smell it.

[Jane Pittenger]

Great to learn about the leaf cutter bee

[Rick]

Interesting about the bee. Great shot.

[Milanie]

That's pretty interesting. Thanks for the background.

[Jacqueline]

That is so interesting to know! Great shot/edit too