Bamboo and Bees

[moriphen]

So I spent the afternoon digging sites for new bamboo and I noticed what I would consider "confused" bees. What would compel a bee to land on a bamboo? I have my thoughts but I'd like to hear what everyone thinks and for the record it was not a wasp.

M

[ShmuBamboo]

They may be drinking water, or they may just be resting. Or they may be gathering some pollen scattered on the leaves from some other plants. As for being confused, that usually only happens when they are sick, dying, or smoked. I raised bees for 4 years and they never had anything to do with my bamboos. Unless bamboos are in flower, which rarely happens, and I have never had a flowering bamboo in my collection. I do not see why a bee would have any interest in them, unless they were planted in the way to someplace that they had been programmed to go to harvest by a dancing bee at the hive that had found a stash of flowers. I never saw paper wasps on my bamboos, or bumble bees, carpenter bees, or any other types of wasp or hornets (bald face wasps) or nests in or on the bamboo groves I had out in the wilderness. We lost our bees to CCD; colony collapse disorder. One day they were just all gone. In two separate hives in different sets of supers.

[needmore]

I had yellow jackets strangely attracted to my Sasa tsuboiana one summer and the praying mantids then hung out there and I saw them catching & munching the yellow jackets - I enjoyed seeing that having been stung countless times by those little bas$#@!ards over the years but those particular ones never did get me they almost seemed sedated.

[moriphen]

They may be drinking water, or they may just be resting. Or they may be gathering some pollen scattered on the leaves from some other plants. As for being confused, that usually only happens when they are sick, dying, or smoked. I raised bees for 4 years and they never had anything to do with my bamboos. Unless bamboos are in flower, which rarely happens, and I have never had a flowering bamboo in my collection. I do not see why a bee would have any interest in them, unless they were planted in the way to someplace that they had been programmed to go to harvest by a dancing bee at the hive that had found a stash of flowers. I never saw paper wasps on my bamboos, or bumble bees, carpenter bees, or any other types of wasp or hornets (bald face wasps) or nests in or on the bamboo groves I had out in the wilderness. We lost our bees to CCD; colony collapse disorder. One day they were just all gone. In two separate hives in different sets of supers.

Moisture was my educated guess

M

[marcat]

You might check to see if the Boo has aphids, the honey dew attracks them.
MarCat