Sidewalk Bees

[Phil Stob]

Last night at the meeting, a returning member mentioned a colony of bees along a sidewalk.  

There is a chance that it might be another one of these rare bee colonies.

https://baynature.org/2021/06/03/new-colony-of-a-rare-stingless-bee-once-presumed-absent-from-california-found-by-a-four-year-old-in-palo-alto/

While not native to here, they will adapt just fine, although rare.  This may be a news worthy discovery. 

I apologies for not recording the returning members name.   All full intentions to strike up a conversation after the presentation, but I got distracted.  

Cheers, Phil 

[Phil Stob]

And here are some better stats on observations in the bay area on i-Naturalist.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/brazilian-stingless-bees-in-the-sf-bay-area

Native bees are generally solitary.   So any bees making a colony is not likely to be native to Ca.  

Cheers, Phil