There were a few screw holes left in our walls where fixtures were removed for the builders to get to work. One has been taken over by a line of parcels! 
Not brown paper but carefully cut scraps of rose leaf, each wrapping a food supply for the egg that the leaf-cutter bee has laid in there. This faces almost due North, so the outer larva will not roast to death.
That mother works hard for babies she’ll probably never know. And how well do we ever know our children? Off they go, God bless them, and how did they get like that?
Here is where you can send your sightings of bees in the United Kingdom: info@theBigBuzz.biz or beecount@foe.co.uk . There is great concern that bees are losing ground in Britain.
Will Turnstone 