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The gatecrasher
This year the bee hotel has increased its clientele. Last year there were two miner bees visiting. This year there are at least six. There is also an arachnid interloper, a zebra spider, who appears to be entering a completed incubation chamber for predation purposes. As you can see, it has excavated a little of the cement to make a comfortable entrance. We won't know of course whether it will be content with the first chamber only or whether it will systematically excavate right the way through the series of chambers to the very back of the cane.
The gatecrasher
This year the bee hotel has increased its clientele. Last year there were two miner bees visiting. This year there are at least six. There is also an arachnid interloper, a zebra spider, who appears to be entering a completed incubation chamber for predation purposes. As you can see, it has excavated a little of the cement to make a comfortable entrance. We won't know of course whether it will be content with the first chamber only or whether it will systematically excavate right the way through the series of chambers to the very back of the cane.