How do you stop wood pigeons from using a bird feeder? Wood pigeons are now commonly seen in many gardens as they bully other birds away from the food whether it’s on the ground, on a table or in a bird feeder. They almost ‘hoover’ up wastage from...
I have found queens and worker bumblebees on the ground many times knowing that all they needed was a little sugar water ‘pick me up. Unfortunately, it is not something I carry around with me. Until now. This was not only a lovely idea but handy to have and nice...
I suspect that most people when we talk about pollinators, simply think about bees, whether bumblebees, honey or solitary bees. They may not be aware that there are many other pollinators of flowers which they did not consider as pollinators. This book explains what a...
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...
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...
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