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08-05-2011, 05:03 PM
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| | | attracting bees
Hi there,
We seem to have a bees nest under the eves of the house, too high for identification. Can I attract them down onto a window sill with anything? Honey? Do they home in on something sweet like wasps? I will try this but as the nearest sill is in a room seldom used I don't want to waste time doing something that doesn't stand much chance of working!! |
08-05-2011, 08:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Salisbury; Wilts
Posts: 2,308
| | | Re: attracting bees
Please keep this one under observation - these could be nesting Bombus hypnorum, the so-called "Tree Bee".
Look for a bumble with a ginger thorax, a black abdomen and a snow white tail. Pick activity imminent |
09-05-2011, 12:37 PM
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| | | Re: attracting bees
Thanks eucera. We do have tree bees nesting in a wall in the garden and I have recorded them for the BTO and informed our local Natural history society. So I guess this could just be another nest. We are in Sheffield so its quite a bit North of its range I think.
Last edited by ultramarine; 09-05-2011 at 12:40 PM.
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09-05-2011, 03:53 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Salisbury; Wilts
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| | | Re: attracting bees
A wall nest would be very unusual - any chance of a pic? As I am chairman of the BWARS ( BWARS Home Page), I can add data easily to the national database.
The northernmost outpost is currently in Northumberland - the species has been in Yorks for several years now and is abundant in Leeds/Bradford and Hull. I would be amazed if they had done a detour around Sheffield |
10-05-2011, 06:05 PM
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| | | Re: attracting bees
Oh dear! I hope I'm right about the nest! I've seen bees coming and going from a hole in the wall this year and last year and just assumed it was a nest. However this evening I saw a tree bumble bee and very soon after ,a white tailed bb enter the same hole so maybe I've got it totally wrong! There's only been one or two exiting and entering the hole , not streams of them.
Can you tell me why, when entering a count of 3 tree bumble bees on the BTO form, I got a message saying this was an unusually high count?
The tree bees are quite distinctive, its the other blighters i have trouble with!
I'd like to send a pic but dont think it would be very informative.
Last edited by ultramarine; 10-05-2011 at 06:07 PM.
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