We went to a friends house for Thanksgiving dinner. While we were there they were talking about a tree that had fallen on the property. It was blocking an easement and so it had to be removed. They were surprised when they started to cut it up to find out it had been hollowed out by some bees. It was truly amazing to see how much had been removed by the bees. It was no brainer as to why the tree died and fell to the ground.
My friends decided to keep this piece of the trunk and were planning on making it into a table.
After seeing that we decided to go and see the rest of the tree.
At first you don't think it was that bad but then when you saw huge sections one after another hollowed out, you couldn't help but be impressed with how powerful these bees must have been. We also wondered how long were they in that tree.
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| Bees hollow out a tree |
This was the top piece that wasn't hollowed all the way through.
There was still some honey comb and also a few bees flying around this section so I didn't get too close to it.
I did go ahead and cropped some of the pictures so you could get a better look.
I could imagine some other animal making this hollowed out tree into a home. Then I could imagine if this would have been buried in the ground and filled in with different material what an amazing fossil/ rock this would be.
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