Are bumble bees thriving now?

[Devil's advocate]

Now that neo nics are banned, conditions should be ideal & populations boom.

Apparantly not the case. Global warming & modern farming are now reducing the wild bee population.

Please discuss.

 

[Kidds]

I expect they are (global warming and modern farming) but you cannot have a sensible discussion on the matter without pointing the finger at badgers too.

 

[Jerry]

Funny enough I picked up a couple in the yard this afternoon.


They were crawling around on the concrete.

Picked them up and popped them on some flowering camellias.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Funny enough I picked up a couple in the yard this afternoon.


They were crawling around on the concrete.

Picked them up and popped them on some flowering camellias.

I'm not an expert, but I would have put them in the hay barn underneath some loose hay & left that area undistured until early May.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I expect they are (global warming and modern farming) but you cannot have a sensible discussion on the matter without pointing the finger at badgers too.

Yes my Mothers lawn was dug up where a bumble bee had built her nest.

 

[Tealo]

I think there is a lot of rape failed or not grown as a result of no seed treatment. Now bee's have less harvesting habit, who would have thought it.??

 

[Devil's advocate]

I think there is a lot of rape failed or not grown as a result of no seed treatment. Now bee's have less harvesting habit, who would have thought it.??

Plus more alternative insecticides having to be used.

 

[Bogweevil]

I'm not an expert, but I would have put them in the hay barn underneath some loose hay & left that area undistured until early

Now that neo nics are banned, conditions should be ideal & populations boom.

Apparantly not the case. Global warming & modern farming are now reducing the wild bee population.

Please discuss.

Bumblebees Conservation Trust supports bee science & monitor bee populations 2019 report, available from their website, was mixed, some species doing better, some worse. They have this to say on badger s etc.

Bumblebees have many predators, some of which are mammals and birds. These predators have co-existed with bumblebees for thousands of years and are not a cause for conservation concern – it is the human caused problems like habitat loss, pesticide exposure and climate change which make natural predation more of an issue for bumblebee populations

 

[Gong Farmer]

Funny enough I picked up a couple in the yard this afternoon.


They were crawling around on the concrete.

Picked them up and popped them on some flowering camellias.

Sorry, are we still talking badgers?

 

[Jerry]

Sorry, are we still talking badgers?

Don’t think my camellias are strong enough tho have couple badgers sat 3 foot up!

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[quattro]

Is there a legal way to encourage badgers to move

 

[yellow belly]

The problem could be that the winter is too warm and they break hibernation and are active and using food reserves they cannot replenish
yesterday saw a large bumble bee flying in the open
the bumble bees because of their size can operate at lower temperatures than smaller Inspects gives them n advantage ( early bird gets the worm )

 

[Hindsight]

The problem could be that the winter is too warm and they break hibernation and are active and using food reserves they cannot replenish
yesterday saw a large bumble bee flying in the open
the bumble bees because of their size can operate at lower temperatures than smaller Inspects gives them n advantage ( early bird gets the worm )

Same issue I assume with Red Admiral butterflies. In our house have found maybe 10 or more Red Admirals on the move in past few weeks. Have let outside if on the wing, or if rested with wings folded relocated to outhouses in the garden.

 

[texelburger]

I saw,back in the summer,where Badgers had destroyed 2 wild Bee nests.Thats a lot of Bees but, imo,the bee numbers have been increasing in recent years.Nothing to do with neonics as in our area they were increasing pre ban.

 

[Steevo]

Is there a legal way to encourage badgers to move

For Sale sign outside their house?

 

[Steevo]

Now that neo nics are banned, conditions should be ideal & populations boom.

Apparantly not the case. Global warming & modern farming are now reducing the wild bee population.

Please discuss.

It's the farmers.....Countryfile would use words like "change in farming practices", "monocropping", "hedgerow removal" etc. I'm sure.

 

[quattro]

For Sale sign outside their house?

I’ve already given 6months notice

 

[Dry Rot]

A few years ago my Land Rover broke down and the only way to get to town to get spares was to hitch hike. Standing at the roadside I noticed lots of dead bumble bees at the edge of the tarmac. Would they have been foraging the white clover flowers on the verges and become road casualties? Not the big bees but the smaller light brown ones.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Is there a legal way to encourage badgers to move

Human pee around their holes or is that just myth.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Human pee around their holes or is that just myth.

it works