Making a Home

A yellow and black bumble bee with a black spot on its back is on the right side of a bird box. In the middle of the wooden rectangle bird box is a piled nest of chickadee feathers and bright green moss.
Photo By/Credit
Mara Koenig/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
06/18/2020
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
While bumble bees typically choose nesting sites in empty rodent burrows and other natural cavities, this common eastern bumble bee found hers in a vacant bird box!
Recreational Activity
Wildlife watching
Photography
Subject tags
Insects
Pollinators