Unlike the most familiar bees, such as honeybee or the bumblebees for instance, the ‘tawny mining bee’ is a solitary nester.

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species ...

This is the most common bee-fly species in the UK. It is widespread across England, Wales and Scotland ... explains how a dark-edged bee-fly lays her eggs in a solitary bee's nest and the unfortunate ...

It clambers in and disappears inside. It’s a female tawny mining bee, a kind of solitary bee. These make up 90 per cent of our bee species. Unlike honeybees and bumblebees, they forage and nest alone.

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

What you might not expect is that the grand majority of bee species do not produce honey or even live in hives. Roughly 77% of the bees on earth are classified as solitary. This classification exists ...

If kids want, paint and decorate the outside of the bee hotel. Solitary bee species—which don’t live together in hives—prefer dark spots to nest, so have children choose dark colors.

Most of the UK's bees are solitary species. Some of these important pollinators seek out pre-existing spaces, such as old beetle holes in wood, for their nests. They lay their eggs in these spaces and ...

including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by beekeepers. Others, like many species of bumblebees and solitary bees live in the wild. Bees in a modern, industrialised world ...

[But] we have maybe about 2,000 species of native bees which often don't make honey," he said. "The majority are stingless. It won't be productive if you're a solitary bee, and many of them are ...