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Bee Condo!
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The primary method of assessing Toronto’s cavity-nesting bee diversity will be nestboxes setup throughout the city.
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Provisioning caterpillar-controlling wasp
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Nestboxes are used by pollinating bees, but also pest-killing wasps important in natural garden management. Photo credit: Peter Hallett
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Osmia tersula female provisioning a cell with pollen
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Each nestbox contains holes of various widths, each of which may house 1 to more than a dozen larva provisioned by a variety of hard-working solitary female bee species. Photo credit: Peter Hallett
