Solitary Bee Nesting and Tree Care
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Collapse ▲I learned this year that some solitary bees use hollow twigs of perennial plants to make nests and lay eggs to produce the next generation. I have one plant, a large perennial salvia, that I’m going to use this year to test this out and see if I can get more of these solitary pollinators to live in my yard. The twigs need to be at least as big around as a pencil in order for the bees to make their nest. I’ll remove the smaller stems and cut the larger ones off at about 15 inches tall. The new stems in the spring will get that tall really quickly and for most of the summer I won’t see the cut stems. I’ll check from time to time to see if there are any nests.
During the last wind event I had several limbs that were high up in my river birch tree break off and fall down. Most of them reached the ground and I was able to easily remove them, but there were a couple that got hung up among the other branches. For those ones I had to get my pole pruner out and pull them out of the tree. Leaving dead limb, especially ones that are broken off, hanging in the tree is a good way to end up with dents in the car or possibly a limb through a window. If you see dead limbs in a tree in your yard, remove them as quickly as you can so they don’t become projectiles during a wind storm.