The cleaning out of the phragmites tubes in the fall produced some new and interesting species of mason bees and leaf-cutter bees. These small pollinators prefer the small diameter phragmites tubes
The first sample here, a very tiny wasp in a woolly cocoon has been identified by iNaturalist as a Club-horned wasp Subfamily Sapyginae.. I don’t know yet if these are pollinators but I suspect they are .
The next one was a half sized mason bee which came from the silvery meshed cocoons:
Similar in size is a very bronze coloured mason bee, from similar silvery meshed cocoons:
Very different cocoons are these mud encased cocoons.. I have isolated a few of these tubes to see what emerges when they hatch, so I will add photos later here
Also appearing in the phragmites tubes are leaf-cutter bees.. photos to come later