Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden – Bee
  • October 2, 2018
  • Posted by: Mike McQueen, Charles Ray, and Kerry Smith
  • in Lawn & Garden
Bee
Bee

*This is an excerpt from Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283.

Aliases: honeybee, bumblebee, digger bee

Wanted For: Pollinating the flowers of many ornamental, fruit, and vegetable plants.

Family History: Specially equipped for moving large quantities of nectar and pollen, honeybees live in colonies in hives. Most native bees are masters at eluding notice and often live alone in ground nests.

Sightings: Usually seen in gangs in the vicinity of flowers high in nectar and pollen, including asters, sunflowers, mints, lavender, rosemary, and sages.

Mike McQueen, Regional Extension Agent, Home Grounds, Gardens and Home Pests; Charles Ray, Research Fellow, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University; and Kerry Smith, State Master Gardener Program Coordinator, Auburn University

Reviewed November 2021, Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283

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