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How do I get only bees like the one on the bottom has only flies?
I'm willing to allow other insects like butterflies and mantises, but flies and gnats are non-starters.
Many non-honey bees like to burrow in small tunnels. Preparing such tunnels for them can help them set up camp in your garden. You can do so, by e.g. drilling a few holes into a piece of wood and putting it somewhere where it doesn't get rained on too much.
Edit: I just saw that the uppermost picture has in fact one of those hanging on the tree to the right.
These are referred to as insect/bee hotel.
I was mostly joking on the assumption that it would be impossible, but now I'm fascinated by the idea that I can actually influence butterflies and bees so they're more abundant in my area. I was aware of the bee hotels, but didn't know they were anything more than a weird hobby. Do they exist for preying mantises? We sometimes find them in our yard, but they're endangered and I'd love to have a way to help them propagate.
Ah, yeah, it certainly is impossible to get only bees. ๐
I'm not actually a biologist or insect hotel expert myself. You'll probably get much better advice, if you ask in e.g. !askbiologists@lemmy.world.
Given their camouflage, though, I imagine, they mostly want bushes to hide/hunt in. Maybe also don't rake the leaves in autumn right away.
Well, and you would probably actually want many other insects in your garden, for them as prey.
It's one of those self-perpetuating behaviours. The more you spend time in the garden improving plantlife, the more animals you see especially on the microscopic level, the greater your interest. Good fun.
Thank you very much!
Our gnat population went down when we put up a hummingbird feeder and planted stuff that they like. It went up when we started composting though.
We have a few bushes that the bees really like, and it's cool to walk by them and hear such loud buzzing.