Protecting our native solitary bees is good environmental stewardship, because they are important pollinators. Solitary bees (a.k.a. ground nesting bees) include the many species of miner bees, leafcutter bees, cellophane bees, and sweat bees. Solitary bees do not live in hives. They live alone in individual nests in the ground and are only active for about 4 to 6 weeks….