These are my new leafcutter mason bee cocoons I received today:
This is what they will look like:
I put them in the fridge to save till summer. I got them because we have very few honeybees left here.
I also got some hornfaced mason bees which are active in the spring. They look like this:
Very bee like aren't they?
This is where they put their cocoons:
The smaller insert on the left is for the leafcutter bees. I guess they are smaller bees.