Newsday
In the community garden plot tended by the Harborfields Public Library in Greenlawn, students recently buzzed over the bee cocoons they were re-sheltering, saving them from predators.
Known as mason bees, the insects were nestled single file in straw-sized hollow reeds in a bee house at the Robert M. Kubecka Memorial Garden in Huntington, a community garden where the library grows garlic, tomatoes and other vegetables.
They hibernated in cocoons resembling shriveled, gray peas. Librarian Mary Kim told the 16 students from Oldfield Middle School and Harborfields High School not to be afraid, as these insects were the nonviolent type.
“These are not stinging bees — these are ‘hippie’ bees,” Kim told the students. “They’re pollinators. This is why we’re saving them.”
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