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I’ve been meaning to write a post on bees for a while.\u00a0 This week I read an article that said recent research suggested that bees were not visiting bee friendly plants<\/a> as much as was thought.\u00a0 This post (mainly pictures) will concentrate on bumble bees since I rarely see a honey bee in my garden nowadays. \u00a0 This is part of an ongoing problem with bee numbers.\u00a0 Honeybee populations have declined massively in recent years.\u00a0 A wide variety of things have been blamed from nuclear power to climate change to insecticides<\/a>.\u00a0 But certainly some of the same factors affect bumblebees which have also declined in numbers.<\/p>\n

Bees are important since they a systematic pollinators.\u00a0 By that I mean they work a plant over.\u00a0 Other insects wasps, flies, beetles and hover flies will pollinate plants but visit flowers on a random basis.\u00a0 Hence the importance of these insects.\u00a0 Even plants that are self fertile do better with pollination.\u00a0 We get 5-6 different types of bumblebee in our garden as well as some types of solitary bee.\u00a0 Here are some of them.\u00a0 I’ve been trying to photograph them, which is not easy.<\/p>\n

Bumblebees build small nests often using grass and other materials.\u00a0 They contain up to about 200 insects.\u00a0 They often nest in roofs (we have had at least one).\u00a0 It forbidden to to destroy the nests under UK law and they rarely cause trouble unlike wasps or honeybees\u00a0 where the nest gets very large and can damage the building.\u00a0 Bumblebees can sting many times (in fact the only bee I’ve been stung by was a bumblebee) but are very none aggressive.<\/p>\n

Bombus terrestris, <\/em>buff tailed bumblebee (worker)<\/p>\n

\"cuckoo<\/a>Bombus hypnorum<\/em>, the tree bumblebee queen.\u00a0 This species has benefited from climate change and is now found in Southern Scotland.<\/p>\n

\"Bombus<\/a>Bombus pascuorum, common Carder Bee<\/p>\n

\"common<\/a><\/p>\n

These are most common one I see, they seem to go in stages in that one particular species works one plant at at time.<\/p>\n

The bees visit all the flowers in the garden that the article above says they don’t.\u00a0 One of their favourites are the thistle which I’ve photographed them on above since they have to work at getting the pollen on this.\u00a0 They also love common sage, a type of salvia from south Africa that no insect seems to be able obtain anything from but they try, Lavender, Oregano, echinops.\u00a0 They quite like nasturtiums and inula.<\/p>\n

I hope this short blog has given you a bit of insight into these important insects which we rely on so much and need all the help they can get.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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