Bumble bee boxesBumble bee boxesHi
As Bumble bees are on the decline. i think we should try and help them. i found this link on how to make a bumble bee box. I've made one and its already got visitors http://www.english-nature.org.uk/about/ ... eaflet.pdf Thanks for that Hunter001.
Unfortunately I have had one for well over a year, and the little blighters have not used it. Cost me a fortune, from the Chelsea Flower Show. I love bumble bees Wendy http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning you and me both. This is the first I have heard of it :cry:
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If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
I built them one last year and they ignored it but if you leave a messy bit of garden with lots of prunings,grass cuttings etc (doesn't have to be very big) I find they will over winter and nest in that. I love bumblebees too but was quite shocked when I found out they live in colonies.
Call myself a nature lover! I thought they lived alone like the little solitary bees Jackie xx
No problem with messy bits in my garden, I got plenty.
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If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
At the end of the summer when the new generation of queens has fled the nest the drones all turn on the queen and each other in a macabre killing-fest. It's all to do with the hormone that the queen produces to demand obedience form her subjects and prevent them laying eggs; once it has gone they all go power mad and fight to the death. The new queens all fly off and winter in snug places ready for the new spring.
Bah Humbug
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