New World have kindly donated leafcutter bees to Wakari School.

On Monday Craig and Braeden from New World came in and told us all about the Leafcutter bees.

We got to see a home of bumble bees and a home for the Leafcutter bees as well.

With all that, we got to see a can of 75 Leafcutter bee cocoons and got 2 free boxes of New World Little Gardens and we got to plant them.

The plant I got for the Little Gardens is some sort of purple flower that I forgot the name to. 

Olly Morris.

This is what we found out about Leafcutter bees.

Leafcutter bee cocoons have to be 21 degrees Celcius to break open and crawl out. Leafcutter bees are very interesting because they only sting if they are squished. They don’t make honey, instead they pollinate flowers.

{ I know all bees do this but all other types of bees die after they sting people so the Leafcutter bees get more done than other bees like honey bees or bumble bees } 

By James Mosley