BEES !!!

i'll have to take more notice-- I usually give them a wide berth, had 2 huge ones in the greenhouse after the hyacinths and it to ages to convince them to leave :)

thanks for this Stroller...great for ID s ! We had a nest of carder bees last year at the top of the garden...and most welcome !

That's a really handy guide to have....thanks Stroller! I don't remember seeing this in the mag, i must have missed that edition!

How interesting. I never know there were red ones.
I've put this blog on my favs so that I can look again at it.

Very interesting blog.

Me too Hywel,thanks Stroller,very interesting :)

We all need the bees, hardly saw any last year its frightening

Thanks for the info Stroller, I`ll keep my eyes open for them this year. :o)

Thanks Stroller, added this to my favourites so I can look at it again. Never realised we had so many different bees....

in new zealand we only seem to have one of the large bees we call the bumble bee
so thanks for the pics i will see if any of your pics resemble our common bee.
we seem to only have 2 basic sorts, the honey bee, and maybe one bumble bee
so will be able to look warily at the next large bee and take note of his colors

from a pic i took some time ago

ours has a all black head and white tail with a band of yellow around its waist
and a smear of black across its white tail color and nests underground

Piersdad - seems to fit description for a white-tailed bee.

Glad it was of interest, although I must confess I don`t look too closely at those in the garden after being stung when pegging washing out.

love this ,am a bit scared of bees ,but still try to get them in garden as they r so important to us. have seen a few buzzzzzzzzing around tho lol x thanxs 4 ur coments as well

Couldn`t agree with you more Cristina, I`ve just replaced my very very old Buddlia with a new white one to encourage the Bees and Butterflies.

Just found this Stroller, very handy, we like to revive bees with honey when they get trapped & exausted in the concervatory.

we had a bee swarm in the garden but they seem to have gone now

Thanks Pam and Cristina, we`ve been watching the white tailed ones going in and out under our Lean to at the side of the house. The Bombus Lucorum variety as they are nesting underground.

the 1,s in my garden seemed to b nesting between the panels of our stable at bottom of the garden . hony bees. but now no sign of em