Wool Carder Bee

There’s a battle going on in your garden between invasive and valuable domestic pollinators. Here’s how to tilt the fight in favor of our humble bumble bee.

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Honey bees beware: A male European woolcarder bee will aggressively guard specific flowers so females can forage in safety and he can mate.

Kate Bradbury’s wildlife garden is less than a year old, but her lambs’ ears plants are already attracting new pollinators to the plot

A few weeks ago I first noticed a large black and yellow bug spending time at my “Victoria Blue” Salvia flowers. It would fly from the plant at one end of my garden bed to the plant at …

The wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) is one of the most distinctive solitary bees that lives in the Garden. During July and August the Demonstration Garden and the Rock Garden are good places to look for these lively territorial solitary bees. Your best chance of seeing a wool carder bee will i

Because a male bee lays no eggs, it doesn't have an ovipositor. And without one, it doesn't have a stinger. However, some have other armor.

The woolcarder bees belong to a group of cavity-nesting solitary bees. The females forage and collect fiber while the males protect them.

European Wool Carder Bee ( Anthidium maricatum ) .