| Re: Disappearing bees
I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination but we do have quite a few bees in our garden in the West Midlands, UK. We've always had wild bees, which I presume are honey bees but I haven't seen as many bumble bees on my chives flowers (purple) of late. Come to think of it, I can't remember seeing as many bees since those HUGE Spanish ones appeared a few years back.
Anyway, the reason for my post was that we run a number of compost bins at the back of our large garden and clearing one out the other weekend found a hive of wild bees. We did have a colony of mice that would pop up and say hello when you added stuff at one time, but then they disappeared. The bees appear to have taken their place by using the access hole & tunnels the mice dug! Crafty!
We cleared off the compost we needed and made sure we didn't disturb them and moved the empty compost bin to another site. We've since been filling this up and every time we put stuff in - out flies a bee ! The only idea we can come up with is that they are going in after the smell of the fruit - banana/kiwi skins, apple cores etc. Check you compost bins - with your mask on of course to stop the airborne fungi. What next???
Anyway, it's nice to see them.
Yvonne  |