Bellflower resin bee

In 2013 scientists found that some of these bees had built their nests with plastic sealant from buildings. They were the first insects known to do that.

The mother builds her nest as a long row of little rooms in a tube and lays one egg in each room.

It also likes to nest in bee hotels that people hang up in gardens.

It carries pollen on the hairy underside of its tummy, not on its legs like a honeybee.

The babies spend the winter as pupae in the nest and come out as bees in spring.