Bees in the soil?

[Flat 10]

I have been discing some land that’s been uncropped since harvest 2019 but was sprayed off twice so quite bare. Anyway where the soil is soft and organic there’s bees everywhere. Difficult to photograph but I have attached one. Anyone know anything about them? @Princess Pooper

 

[Steevo]

That's a monster!! Is it a bee?

 

[Great In Grass]

That looks more like a Hornet to me.

 

[Flat 10]

Maybe not a bee? I don’t have a scooby do

 

[Flat 10]

That looks more like a Hornet to me.

I didn’t get stung 1000s of them

 

[Great In Grass]

I didn’t get stung 1000s of them

I wouldn't worry about a sting by the size of the thing it could be packing a knife!

 

[DrWazzock]

Looks a bit like the mason bees that live in my house walls. They burrow into the soft sandstone.

 

[2wheels]

comparing the size with the weed it could easily be a bee.

 

[teslacoils]

I have burrowing solitary bees all over my lawn.

 

[Exfarmer]

Is it an ivy bee?

 

[dudders]

They are bees - ground-nesting ones. No danger to you, very docile. Just doing their thing - Solitary queens dig in, liking dry, soft soil. Your thousands are the broods hatched out now and dispersing. Good pollinators.

 

[Flat 10]

They are bees - ground-nesting ones. No danger to you, very docile. Just doing their thing - Solitary queens dig in, liking dry, soft soil. Your thousands are the broods hatched out now and dispersing. Good pollinators.

Brilliant. Was worried I was damaging them

 

[dudders]

Brilliant. Was worried I was damaging them

Well, you are, if you're running discs through their nests !