Here’s a recipe for bee bread:
Bee bread
Winter bees
At the last count we had two feral honey bee colonies in the reserve, both high up in veteran trees. How will the bees cope with this cold snap?
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Like all winged Hymenoptera, honey bees have two sets of wings: a larger outer pair and a smaller inner pair. When the bee is flying, the large wing and the small one are hooked together with Velcro-like teeth called hamuli. At rest, the wings are unhooked for easy storage, the outer wing folding over the inner one.
Swarm
On Friday afternoon the feral honey bee colony in oak tree 5532 swarmed. Julie Newblé found the swarm hanging from a blackthorn branch in the hedge between Puddle Corner and the decorated Bridge and used the last of her phone’s charge to photograph it. In her picture you can just see the swarm’s home tree, oak 5532, in the background.
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There are, as far as we know, two wild or feral honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in the reserve. The first, photographed here by wildlife photographer Simon Knight, is in the old ash tree at Fiveways and the second is in the oak alongside the central path, between the Lone Oak and the decorated bridge.
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Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 