home making

Have you ever looked at your roses in the garden and wondered why there are crescent shaped cutouts in the leaves?

No?

It's all down to a little nesting creature providing a home for her larvae to develop.  And this creature?  It is the leaf cutter bee, and I spent a good hour or so watching one building her little nest in a bamboo wind chime in my garden early one morning just last week.

Here are some images and a very short video taken from a respectful distance.

hmmm - what's all this then...

off she goes

here she comes - surfing that leaf!

safe and sound

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mk 2, OM System 90mm macro lens
1/1250th of a second at f8, ISO 400
handheld