No bumblebees

[casemx 270]

Well their all in my garden

 

[bobk]

Well their all in my garden

Not seen one , maybe the wasps have eaten them

 

[casemx 270]

We have some lavender in our garden and it's constantly being visited

 

[JeepJeep]

Loads on the Sunflowers in the garden.

 

[Kevtherev]

Lots here on sunflowers and some teasel.

 

[Bury the Trash]

lot of bees here of different types, on the Willow around the yard , out in the fields on the red clover every where on the Chicory must b b heaven will be a good season for them with the weather i guess

 

[steveR]

Spring/summer drilled Bumble bird mixtures are not surprisingly, alive with 'em... Phacelia and the crimson clover are the faves at the moment. Sunflowers seem to be favoured by little hoverflys and the like...

The Autumn drilled mixture was probably a bit too early for them, but gave some early feeding for the first bumblebees out of the nests..

 

[nick...]

They are all in my phacelia.never seen so many in my life
nick...
pretty good pic for a phone,experia 10

 

[zero]

Plenty up here in the garden, the hedge backs and stone walls.

 

[casemx 270]

lot of bees here of different types, on the Willow around the yard , out in the fields on the red clover every where on the Chicory must b b heaven will be a good season for them with the weather i guess

Oh perhaps the weather has more to do with bee health and survival and not those nasty farmers killing them

 

[Netherfield]

Loads of Wasps on my Plums and Pears.

 

[Av Gorritt]

We've had many bumble bees , several different types too , some with a really prominent chestnut back end and quite big , others not so big or prominent . They seem to like the aquilegia early on and gone to town on a couple of big trailing cotoneaster bushes hanging down the wall . I occasionally sit on the old milk stand and there's a constant stream of the bigger ones entering and exiting via a hole in a cavity wall . They never seem to bother that I'm in their flight path , and never bother me either . I like to see them . Other years we've had many small black honey bees , presumably some that swarmed when I kept them a few years back . Haven't noticed many this year , but I think they'll still be there .

 

[Bury the Trash]

yes it could be ( ) a lesser known fact there are smaller types of Bumble bee as well as the great big wons

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

We had loads early on, but the drought seems to have reduced them and I have seen a lot of nests dug out by Badgers.
No wasps here as the Badgers do do a good job eliminating the ground nests!

 

[Vincent]

Same here with the badgers they have everything dug out.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Lots of different sorts of bumble bees here in West Suffolk. Lots of butterfly’s and hummingbird moths.

 

[Turnip]

Couple of nests of redtails here. Lots of flying insects here.

 

[texelburger]

I have seen more bees ,this year, than ever before.It makes me wonder where the greeny,environmental activists get their figures from.Methinks the figures are,unsurprisingly, manipulated.

 

[Longlowdog]

At 200 meters in Aberdeenshire we have had our best year in the 16 years we have been here for bees and butterflies. Our woodland rides are awash with butterflies and I counted 6 different bumblebee types on our climbing hydrangea. A one acre field that has a lot of marsh thistle is probably a grazier's nightmare but I'm loath to clean it up due to the sheer amount of bugs and beasties that feed on the flowers and it is rated as the highest nectar yielding naturally occurring plant.
Damselflies have also been particularly abundant this year around our pond.
We had a stormy but mild winter and no late frosts this year so our fruit trees are looking great this year too.
I heard of a few cases of hives dying over winter but overall I think the local beekeepers are happy with how the bees are doing. There are plenty around our house this year, enough to make me wonder if there is a wild hive in a tree somewhere. This despite there being no shortage of O.S.R being grown locally.

 

[Dry Rot]

Who was the naturalist who reckoned there is a correlation between old maids and bumble bees? T H White? He reasoned that old maids kept cats and cats eat mice. Mice make nests that are used by bumble bees and bumble bee nests are sought by badgers who love the honey. I think clover might have featured in the equation somewhere because bees pollenate clover and clover is good for fattening cattle and lambs. So maybe old maids are bad for farming? Anyway, the old boy obviously had the same sense of humour as myself! Now, have I got that right?