Pest!

Oh dear..I'm not a great believer in killing bees...but..

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!!!

Beautiful pic though, small sacrifice for art maybe... :)

Well you dont want all your flowers destroyed tho! :)

i had something similar but on my honeysuckle Serotina ... in the end all the buds fell off....

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...

Needs must!!

Am tending to that same conclusion, Scottish!

Dinnae be feird fae him!!

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..

I think you need a pet bee eater. :-)))

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.......!!

blimey that must be strong stuff !! hope there's not to much damage..

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!!

good luck .... it's raining here at the moment !

Thanks SL...will let you know how I get on...
...btw it's over 40°C again today, just too hot to do anything!

blimey the only way it gets that hot here is if i turn up the central heating!! :-))

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!

Lol i know what you mean, some of my bulbs have not even grown this year.. still there's hope for next year...

Absolutely!! :)

lol Karen and they're as blind as a bat, they charge straight into you...

This one actually hovers in front of me...eyeball to eyeball! Then I leave!!

LOL!

I'm not kidding! :((

I would too! lol

They are huge Pixi....

OMG Exterminate!

LOL!!!!

Heck - big one

No kidding, Paul, I'm betting on him not actually wanting to sting me!....... :(((((

Yes that would have hurt badly

Lol!! Probably worse for him, but he's braver than I am!!

I'd skelp his arse!

OUCH!! and OUCH!! lol!!

Hehe You have a lot of killing to do today!

It's that kind of day..................lol!!

Hahaha aye you get them now and then eh?

Abeille charpentière ,le xylocope violacé..
Notre plus grande abeille sauvage.

Bon Soir, Ray! Oui, je connais! Excusez mon pauvre Francais...je peu parler le langue (juste suffit!), mais je peu pas l'ecrire...