BEES!!

my annual supply of leaf cutter bees came by fedx today arriving about one-thirty this afternoon...i set the tube of cocoons in the refrigerator and used the fifteen minutes to set up the hatchery...i retrieved the tube, opened it, and poured some of the cocoons out in my hand...

there were some hatched out males in there, dopey from the cold...

one by one...

they began to warm up...

and take off to go be bees...

this guy was hanging around the hatchery and i had to move him along...

so that after i put the cocoons in the hatchery i could affix the lid...

he came back after it was on...

did some clambering while exploring...

and then just stared at me a while before he took off to have a look around the yard while he waited for the girls to hatch...my thoughts are he'll be back.