Friday , June 18, 2010
Love: Bees That Make Their Nests From Flower Petals
They live in Turkey and Iran. Here's an excerpt from the NPR story (via Teagan Tall), about how the bees build their nests. "She" is the bee:
"To begin construction, she bites the petals off of flowers and flies each petal -- one by one -- back to the nest, a peanut-sized burrow in the ground. She then shapes the multi-colored petals into a cocoon-like structure, laying one petal on top of the other and occasionally using some nectar as glue. When the outer petal casing is complete, she reinforces the inside with a paper-thin layer of mud, and then another layer of petals, so both the outside and inside are wallpapered -- a potpourri of purple, pink and yellow."
So lovely! I hope Tanya Donelly's seen these; she loves bees and flowers. Here's a song she wrote about bees:
"The Bees" by Belly
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Tags: bees, Belly, flowers, Tanya Donelly
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