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Bee,s

irish

By Irish

Dublin, Ireland

has anyone else seen bee's in their garden lately?
i seen one christmas day and one huge one this morning, tried to get a photo of it but it was gone by the time i got my camera from the house. friends on the road have also seen bee's in their gardens this week




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yes i have and i still got a spider on my kitchen window.a worrying sign of the times i believe

28 Dec, 2008

 

Hi NP, strange isnt it

28 Dec, 2008

 

yes me too, i have seen a few over the last few weeks, one nearly flew into me boxing day on the way to my Mahonia flowers and mosquetoes too- i have been bitten a few times, really quite strange, and very worrying.

28 Dec, 2008

 

Mosquitoes? ouch . glad to say i havent seen any of those here

28 Dec, 2008

 

its not strange its worrying though it suits a lot of us gardeners including me .the big picture seams a bit worrying

28 Dec, 2008

 

We often see bees in winter. The snowdrops rely on the winter hardy mining type bees for pollenation. They will fly when the temperature is barely above freezing.

28 Dec, 2008

 

Yes, there was a large bee trying to get into one of the Helleborus foetidus flowers the other day. I took his photo but deleted it because it came out blurry. I was surprised to see him, I must admit!

Owdboggy, are the mining bees black with a little white on them? If so, I have them in my top border every year.

28 Dec, 2008

 

~apparently you can put out a solution of sugar dissolved in water on a sponge in a shallowbowl ~ if they are starving and looking for food it will help~

28 Dec, 2008

 

There are various forms of mining bee. The ones we see most often have brownish red bottoms.

28 Dec, 2008

 

Yes, nothing unusual about seeing bumble bees in the winter especially when the sun is shining

28 Dec, 2008

 

maybe i just never noticed them before.
think ill give that sugar solution a try Arlene

29 Dec, 2008

 

go 4 it

29 Dec, 2008

 

The sugar and water idea is a really good one. The problem comes when we have cold weather followed by much warmer weather and the bees can be fooled into activity. They are then in trouble if they can't find food and if there is cold weather again.

I lost two hives one year because of this happening. There just weren't enough survivors to keep things going.

30 Dec, 2008

 

ah thats a shame weedpatch. do you have many hives now?

30 Dec, 2008

 

not so many insects now lol

3 Jan, 2009

How do I say thanks?

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