It’s “Beeball” Season: Where you’ll find balls of native bees in a mating frenzy!
World Bee Day is May 20th – help us support and save some of our most important pollinators by checking out our latest video and learning all about the wild mating habits of one of California’s most interesting native bees – genus Diadasia!
In this video, we feature what we believe to be Diadasia bituberculata, aka Bindweed Turrett Bees. See them fight each other in their frenzied beeballs as they battle it out over the ladies! We also give you an extremely up close and personal view of some of their day to day activites and sprawling colony of nests!
Native pollinators like these are extremely crucial to our own survival as humans. Our video teaches you some reasons why, as well as provide some tips on how YOU can also protect and save these wonderful creatures.
We found this colony while birding California’s newest nature preserve for this year’s Global Big Day. It’s an incredible, truly wild place, so full of life. So be sure to also check out our posts from Global Big Day here to experience it!
We’d like to give a shout out to awesome bee expert Krystle Hickman at BeeSip for helping us identify the bees we found!
Or watch it on our YouTube channel here. To learn more about Hannah, our videographer, click here!
