Bee pulls nail out of brick wall

Not to be confused with Mason bees, which have secret meetings, bizarre rituals, and secretly control the honey trade.

In my research, you can make little hives for these guys buy bundling small tubes together and hanging them in a tree or in your garden.

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Clearly a Mason bee, but perhaps it wants to bee aā€¦

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Nope, theyā€™re all males. This though is a female.

edit: Oh, I didnā€™t see, or it didnā€™t show, thereā€™d been a reply already.

Thatā€™s some impressive proportional strength. I credit the beeā€™s knees.

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Carpenter bees are a great pest to Viking longships in the USA. Totally not kidding.

My barn has over a hundred years of carpenter bee infestation, but it doesnā€™t have to protect itā€™s contents against water pressing upwards.

I drill holes in some of my unused firewood. Every year I have to add one.

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