May 7, 2022
Hairy-footed flower bees love lungwort! At first glance, the all-black female can easily be mistaken for a queen bumblebee in the early spring, albeit she is somewhat smaller and lacks the usual yellow or white bands of some bumblebee queens that forage around the...
May 6, 2022
Great tits are known predators of bumblebees It is known that great tits (Parus major) will predate bumblebees, as filmed by S O’Connor as part of her research about the nesting ecology of bumblebees and Forster-Johnson, A.P. 2002. She mentions that they even...
Nov 19, 2021
The Wild Gardener The Wild Gardener is to be shown on Friday 19 Nov at 8 pm on BBC2 and programme 2 on the following Friday. There are now 4 programmes. In it, the presenter Colin Staford-Johnson, (who specialised in filming big cats besides working on the BBC series...
Nov 1, 2021
Gasteruption jaculator and the hylaeus bee battle inside a nurturing nature nest box Since having common yellow face bees (Hylaues communis) nesting in my nest boxes, the alien-looking Gasteruption jaculator is a regular visitor with numbers increasing as the common...
Oct 4, 2021
Prof Dave Goulson’s new book ‘Silent Earth’- My Review How do you write a review of a book that is packed full of so many facts, which as an environmentalist myself, I find interesting and to be honest, worrying? It is a powerhouse of information. So...
Sep 21, 2021
Fork-tailed flower bee (Anthrophora furcata) Although I have had the hairy-footed flower bee (Anthrophora plumipes) in my garden feeding upon lungwort,(Pulmonaria) I have not seen the fork-tailed flower bee here at all. It’s obvious when you see the hairy-footed...
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