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Category Archives: Bees
Six on Saturday – The Long Goodbye
What a glorious autumn we are having. We’ve had some frosts, which have carried the dahlias etc off, clearing space for the coming week’s bulb planting. They also helped the colours ramp up, so there is now a great show … Continue reading
September Wildlife Sightings – On the cusp
You know that autumn is here when the spaces between everything in the garden are filled with large webs and, more disturbingly, large spiders. There are loads of garden cross spiders stretched across our front garden path waiting pendulously to … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, birds, Nature, Wildlife
Tagged autumn, Bees, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Photography, Ponds, spiders, wildlife gardening
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Wildlife Wednesday – Ivy Bees … so adorable!
A new spot for me and IDed by helpful Twitter users, these are Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae), a type of mining bee that first appeared in Britain in 2001. Here’s a helpful summary of the Ivy Bee from Naturespot. They … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Bees, Gardening, Ivy bees (Colletes hederae), mining bees, Photography, Wildlife
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What’s been making round holes in my rose leaves?
Posted in Bees, Wildlife
Tagged Gardening, insect hotels, Leaf Cutter bees, nature, Photography, wildlife gardening
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Wordless Wednesday – Rusty Foxgloves: A new love affair
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Digitalis ferruginea, foxgloves, Gardening, Photography, Rusty foxgloves, Solitary bees, Woolly carder bee
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Wordless Wednesday – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Posted in Bees, Flowers, The home garden, Wordless
Tagged Bumblebees, Echium pinnata, Gardening, Giant Viper's Bugloss, Photography
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Wildlife roundup for April – My, what a long tongue you have!
All the better to … reach the nectar. Take a look at the length of this tongue for instance: This is the Hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes) and is a new bee to me this spring. That is not quite … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, birds, Wildlife
Tagged bee fly, Gardening, Hairy-footed flower bee, Magpies, Photography, Swallows, Tawny mining bee, wildlife gardening
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