A honey bee foraging among late season white clover.
Honey bees
Feral bees
We have two feral bee colonies in the reserve.
Buff tailed bumblebees
How do bumble bees squeeze their fat furry bodies through small spaces?
Honey bees
A honey bee foraging among late season white clover.
The Bees’ Knees
Is Marks and Spencer right to set up beehives in farms around the country?
Buff tailed bumblebees
How do bumble bees squeeze their fat furry bodies through small spaces?
Honey bees
A honey bee foraging among late season white clover.
Fascinating fact about bees
Bees carry a positive electrostatic charge.
Buff tailed bumblebees
There are an exceptional number of buff-tailed bumblebees in the park this year; a walk around the hedges of Sleeper Field on a sunny morning revealed dozens working in the blackberry blossoms and the hogweed. There is obviously at least one large and thriving nest somewhere in the southern part of the park.
Honey bees
Unlike common wasps, honey bees (Apis mellifera) don’t die at the end of the summer. The hive stores enough food for the queen and the workers to survive through the winter. .o.
A new species: an ashy mining bee.
The honey bees’ year begins in March.
Bumble bee school
Bumble bees are brighter than you thnk.
Are we worrying about the wrong pollinators.
Consider wildflowers
Less mowing, more wildlife.
Annual report
How did the summer’s drought affect the reserve?
Fact of the week
How many wings does a honey bee have?
The world wide loss of insects is now frightening and dangerous.
Ivy flowers
Ivy flowers at this time of year: a late season feast for hungry insects.
Winter Garden: 1
Time to help your garden wildlife prepare for winter.
Tufted vetch in Lambrok Meadow.
An incomer: a tree bumblebee.
Garden Bumblebee
Garden bumblebee numbers are still falling.
Swarm
One of our feral bee colonies has swarmed.
Reports and photographs of insects this week:
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