Gatherer bees, having lost their wax-creating abilities, build homes they find pleasing: tall labyrinth-hives of flowers, trinkets, glass
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Osmia avosetta, a mason bee, famously makes ugly nests out of petals, but leafcutter bees also sometimes use petals to make tight little pretty cigar-like tube-shaped nests.
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I'm having trouble thinking of trinkets that are suitably sized for bee construction material besides beads. Electronic circuit components! That would be a cool nest.
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