Not everything in our Wildlife Garden goes to plan. We had planted a musk rose (Rosa moschata) to give scented, single flowers around a seat. Bees love single flowers and the birds eat the hips. However, it has been slow to grow and has no flowers. But I had noticed there were bits taken from the leaves.
I suspected the culprit, but on Sunday got the evidence while I was working in the garden - Leaf-cutter Bees were making their nests in one of the logs.
This is the evidence seen today - the bits of rose leaf neatly rolled and placed in the log, but I did not see a bee this time.
Close inspection showed several other insects - many good for the garden - also using cracks in this and other logs.
Well worth a look but for the time being it is best not to use the logs as seats! Someone with a good camera may even be able to get a good shot of a bee for us.
Peter
We saw several bees resting on the path with sections of leaf when we were there weekend before last - never occurred to me that you didn't know about them or I would have taken a photo for you!