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The main attraction, Mason Falls. After a good rainfall the falls are spectacular. Mason Falls Circuit at Kinglake.
Mason defender Joshua Grant [center] is mobbed by his teammates as the clock expires. Mason defeated Turpin 1-0 on Grant's goal with 7:28 left in the second half of the Boys Regional Semi Final.
Mason was found and cared for as a stray. After calling six microchip providers, we found out his microchip is untraceable. He is sweet, affectionate and good with other cats, dogs and children. He is in good health, and has a handsome glossy black coat which he spends quite some time grooming. Mason has been with us since April 17th, 2010, enjoying the cat condos in the Memory Lane room and watching the world go by through the window. He seems to have no interest in going back outside, so would be a great cat for an apartment or other small home.
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the Pub in Rookwood. Lauren Gaunt, of Mason, Jennifer Sartori of W. Chester, Gary Kislker of Mason, Tim Sartori of W. Chester, Ayana Davidson of W. Chester and Angie Conner of Maineville.
Photographed in 1975. Exact location isn't known for sure (the corrugated iron hoadings in the background are a bit of a mystery), but its possibly the stone masons on Box Hill again (or certainly one of the other stone masons nearby). At the time, all the stone masons around the local area were producing fine examples of stonework similar to this. Again Peter Woodgate is featured posing next to this piece of elaborate stonework.
Vancouver, BC — 01 June 2017 — Second round of the Freedom 55 Financial Open at the Point Grey Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, BC. (Photo: Chuck Russell/PGA TOUR)
Mason City might be the centerpiece of Iowa architecture. We spent at night at the Historic Park Inn, the only hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright still operating, and took a stroll through a neighborhood that is home to the Wright-designed Stockman House along with homes by some of his acolytes.
While teaching at Locust Grove, I was lucky enough to catch all of these mason bees hatching and mating! What a cool sight! These bees are only active for a few weeks.
I think this might be a male Osmia leaiana, but you probably know by now that I am usually wrong.
It's fresh and brightly coloured, whatever it is.
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I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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