Apr 30, 2015
Probably Bombus hortorum, the Garden Bumblebee, feeding on primroses This is a longue tongued bumblebee which she would need to collect the nectar deep within the primroses. Its long narrow head helps with this task. Not all bumblebees, frustratingly for them!, can...
Apr 27, 2015
A Guest Speaker at the Annual General Meeting Amateur Entomologists Society April 2015 I was invited to give a talk about ‘bees and bee boxes’ by the AES and I based it loosely along the lines of my posting about the potential dangers of using some bee...
Apr 22, 2015
Filming hedgehogs safe inside my hedgehog feeding station Its great to have one hedgehog in your garden but to have two and film them eating makes my day! One has been visiting regularly for some time now. I noticed that sometimes ‘my hedgehog’ seemed to...
Apr 21, 2015
Flowers as used by Bumblebee queens in early spring Early spring flowers literally is the life blood for bumblebee queens and their colonies for newly emerged hibernating queens. The flowers can be crucial to the success or failure of their lives. The establishment...
Apr 9, 2015
Hedgehog feeding up after a long hibernation Very nice to see a hedgehog in my garden so early in the year. I realise it must have hibernated not too far away… be interesting to find out! The peanut butter mixture proved very popular with dried mealworms,...
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