{"id":31,"date":"2009-04-27T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/_blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-04-27T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:21:00","slug":"leaf-cutter-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/leaf-cutter-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Cutter Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_TOet5er9HPs\/SfXqTyzj-dI\/AAAAAAAACMw\/P0igHhefGHo\/s288\/LeafcutterBee.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Near where I put my Honey Bee hives there is a dead tree. As I go to inspect the hives I pass the tree and I notice that it is full of a small bee that looks a little like a honey bee and I wondered what they were.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that the bees that were living in the rotted tree were Leaf Cutter bees.<\/p>\n<p>Leaf cutter bees have a very mild sting. They live in rotted wood. They do not produce honey. They do not live in colonies with a queen. They are a very important pollinating insect. They do not damage the wood of houses.<\/p>\n<p>They cut leaves from some plants in order to make little nests where they keep pollen. The cuts generally are cosmetic and don&#8217;t damage plants.<\/p>\n<p>Leaf Cutter Bees are a very good thing and you should not try to get rid of them if you are lucky enough to have some living nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near where I put my Honey Bee hives there is a dead tree. As I go to inspect the hives I pass the tree and I notice that it is full of a small bee that looks a little like a honey bee and I wondered what they were. I discovered that the bees that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}