Pest!
By Karenfrance
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16 Aug, 2011
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Every flower he does this to falls off before it's finished!
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Me neither, Pixi...but these are solitary bees...
They are too big to get into most of my flowers, so they're not doing much pollination...
...and when they can't get in, they just break and enter...then the flower falls off......thugs!!!
16 Aug, 2011
Beautiful pic though, small sacrifice for art maybe... :)
16 Aug, 2011
Well you dont want all your flowers destroyed tho! :)
16 Aug, 2011
i had something similar but on my honeysuckle Serotina ... in the end all the buds fell off....
16 Aug, 2011
Am still considering my options, girls...
Did you opt for elimination of the 'thug', Surreylad...I know it's late in the season, but I don't want to lose the flowers 'til it's time for them to go...
16 Aug, 2011
Needs must!!
16 Aug, 2011
Am tending to that same conclusion, Scottish!
16 Aug, 2011
Dinnae be feird fae him!!
16 Aug, 2011
i'm sorry to say that i had him Terminated !! it was just doing so much damage, i don't normally like doing that sort of thing..
16 Aug, 2011
I think you need a pet bee eater. :-)))
16 Aug, 2011
Lol! Thanks Scottish, SL and P! Am going out this morning to see how much more damage there is...
...and then going to find my hornet spray...works from six metres.......!!
17 Aug, 2011
blimey that must be strong stuff !! hope there's not to much damage..
17 Aug, 2011
Think I'll have to catch him when it's a bit cooler...in this heat, I'd possibly exterminate more than just the bee!!
17 Aug, 2011
good luck .... it's raining here at the moment !
17 Aug, 2011
Thanks SL...will let you know how I get on...
...btw it's over 40°C again today, just too hot to do anything!
17 Aug, 2011
blimey the only way it gets that hot here is if i turn up the central heating!! :-))
17 Aug, 2011
It started at the end of Feb, SL, really really early...and since then it either been roasting or raining...very strange weather this year...
The plants don't know whether they're coming or going!lol!
17 Aug, 2011
Lol i know what you mean, some of my bulbs have not even grown this year.. still there's hope for next year...
17 Aug, 2011
Absolutely!! :)
17 Aug, 2011
lol Karen and they're as blind as a bat, they charge straight into you...
17 Aug, 2011
This one actually hovers in front of me...eyeball to eyeball! Then I leave!!
18 Aug, 2011
LOL!
18 Aug, 2011
I'm not kidding! :((
18 Aug, 2011
I would too! lol
18 Aug, 2011
They are huge Pixi....
18 Aug, 2011
OMG Exterminate!
18 Aug, 2011
LOL!!!!
19 Aug, 2011
Heck - big one
22 Aug, 2011
No kidding, Paul, I'm betting on him not actually wanting to sting me!....... :(((((
22 Aug, 2011
Yes that would have hurt badly
22 Aug, 2011
Lol!! Probably worse for him, but he's braver than I am!!
22 Aug, 2011
I'd skelp his arse!
22 Aug, 2011
OUCH!! and OUCH!! lol!!
22 Aug, 2011
Hehe You have a lot of killing to do today!
23 Aug, 2011
It's that kind of day..................lol!!
23 Aug, 2011
Hahaha aye you get them now and then eh?
23 Aug, 2011
Abeille charpentière ,le xylocope violacé..
Notre plus grande abeille sauvage.
24 Sep, 2011
Bon Soir, Ray! Oui, je connais! Excusez mon pauvre Francais...je peu parler le langue (juste suffit!), mais je peu pas l'ecrire...
24 Sep, 2011
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Oh dear..I'm not a great believer in killing bees...but..
16 Aug, 2011