u/eighthrowpawn

I wasn't sure what flair to use, and I hope I can ask this here. I have a video of the bee going in, but no still photo so the photo here is simply of my plant and I'm pointing to the entrance.

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I have this plant, and it's recently rescued, so it's the only one with a pot that has side drain holes instead of just bottom drain holes. Yesterday, my partner and I took note of a leafcutter bee going in and out, and she is continuing to today. Even as I am typing this post, she has taken in five or six leaf cuttings. It's very polite of her not to take them from any of my personal plants so far.

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My question is for advice in terms of coexisting with her. I love animals, and she is just doing her thing while I try to maintain doing my thing. My plan so far is to keep watering, but I'll do it with less water at a time more frequently, that way the plant doesn't suffer but then I also don't risk drowning her future babies out.

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This is a good plan? Can I do more to make this a safe space for her and accommodate cohabitation? I'm living is a relatively new complex, so there's been a lot of habitat destruction to make more, and I want to do ly part to help the critters who are just trying to survive the way they have been for years before we came along.

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PS The plant is thriving and putting out lots of new growth, so it really doesn't need repotting. I had initially thought to repot and just make the bee find a new place, but when they started moving this morning she got scared and hid in there for awhile and that was when I decided I wanted to make an effort to let her stay.

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Plus, I just saw her a couple times going in without a leaf but something else that looked small and yellowish, so I wonder if she's already moving pollen and whatever else she needs to prepare for the babies. She's already put so much work into it, she doesn't deserve to have it all trashed.

Last night I had the yellow chicken suit in my store, and so I bought it and put on my yellow chicken hood that I already had and went to bed for the night. My finch had been sent out late, so I woke up this morning to see the adventure.

Long story short, when I was working at Pizza Hut, they had a big one of these in each corner. In early 2021 one of them sprouted a pup, I guess, because my AS went on and on for awhile. Then, in October of that year, she came to me saying, "Would you be interested in a plant I don't want anymore?" I knew exactly which one she was talking about, and now here we are fove years later.

December before last I moved, and she suffered severe cold temperatures and lost all her leaves. I feared I had lost her, but she came back with ferocity, and now I'm wondering if also with a new baby, but to be honest, I'm not fully clear on how to propagate them.

So the big stalk with leaves is, of course, the original plant who said "try to kill me will ya?" and then to the left you can see a smaller growth, which is technically what grew back first. It has its own unique cycle of leaf growth and sometimes matches the other and at other times doesn't. I've since repotted it, though I need to again because it was quick and in the moment, and I did not untangle her root ball for a closer look. But if I do repot her one more time so I can loosen her roots, is this a pup that I can remove and grow a second plant from? Today I even noticed the smaller shoot has freshly put out an ariel root. (Idk if I spelled that right, and it's not in these pictures.)

TL;DR Can I prop the plant from the small shoot? Is it a pup? It has its own leaves and it's own cycle for growing them and everything but I'm scared to remove it in case I do it wrong.

So, the first two photos are how the flowers look around Hans' house right now. The other photos are just to show that I've done flowers around all my villagers' houses, so Hans isn't special or anything in this regard.

I have only placed the white roses around the immediate perimeter of his house. The rest of the flowers are the work of villagers watering or directly planting more flowers. But they only do this around Hans' house. I did the other houses in the picture first, and not once have villagers added more flowers in excess. And I have actually taken away flowers twice before from Hans' house, and this is the third time it's filled up. And I've watched Hans and other villagers plant flowers and water them here. Is it just chance? Is it because Hans' is a little more central, because the villagers will gsther near his house quite often. It's right next to a bridge that goes across the river. It just seems like Hans really loves nature and flowers, and I love that for him. But they haven't done this to Kabuki's house which is directly next to the same bridge on the other side (although there are more trees I haven't gotten rid of yet so maybe that's why).

My headcanon is that since he likely grew up in a cold and snowy place that didn't have a lot of flowers, he has an extra big love for them and that's why he's constantly growing and planting them around his house, and all the other villagers are helping to enable his love for flowers.