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.
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Small scissor bee
This is the cutest thing we have read on the internet for some time.
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Bees buzz in two different ways.
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National Insect Week – Day 2
HOW TO RESCUE A BUMBLEBEE
by Jonah Powers (aged 9½)
When you come across a discouraged exhausted Bombus terrestris (buff tailed bumblebee) here is what you should do.
(1 Mix water and sugar together.
(2 Place some on a flat surface with the bee.
(3 You will notice your bee unfurling her proboscis to consume the liquid
(4 After some time you will discover your bee is becoming more energetic
(5 Now your bee is ready to say “toodle -oo!”
Thank you for contributing to National Insect Week, Jonah.
Honey bee
A honey bee foraging for nectar and pollen among the flowers of hogweed.
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A message and pictures from Julie, regular park-user:
Saw these little mini molehill type structures on the path next to the pond. Under the ones already disturbed there is a little hole. It’s possibly ants or something but thought I’d send them in anyway. Do you know what made them?
Read on to solve the mysteryFascinating fact about bees
There are bees out and about: tiny solitary ones like this one photographed in the park last week, as well as big fat buff-tailed bumblebee queens.
Read on for a fascinating fact about beesDouble flowers
If you are planting your flower beds and hanging baskets, keep our dwindling population of pollinators in mind and please don’t plant double flowers.
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A bee on a bramble leaf, photographed by DKG on a hot May morning.
Continue readingIvy bee
This ivy bee (Colletes hederaea) was photographed in the park in November but has just now been positively identified by an entomologist; not only a new name for our species lists but a relative newcomer to the UK.
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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.
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..pollen baskets on its hind legs…
…the bee visits each floret…
…made up of many individual florets…
