Leafcutter bees-harmless, useful and often neglected pollinator

Leafcutter bees-harmless, useful and often neglected pollinator

Leafcutter bees, rarely seen by many people but ever so useful! I designed my award-winning solitary bee nest box for numerous reasons. I found the other commercial ones turned out to be’ bee cemeteries ‘ not bee hotels, for the leaf cutters and red mason...
Bumblebee roundabout at Warrington – the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee roundabout at Warrington – the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee roundabout The future bumblebee and wildflower traffic island, looks a little tired and depressed at the moment! As most of them do! But that need not be the case….. This roundabout was a typical boring green grassed roundabout. I approached my local...
Bumblebee lawn-the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee lawn-the best I’ve seen!

  All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. I have been watching the progress of this lawn for some time. To many people a lawn is a lawn. It has to be mown and...
Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

A bumblebee’s life cycle video aimed at children, that also gets the message across to us adults! It explains the complete bumblebee life cycle and is a nice animated overview of a complex issue. Although, in reality bumblebee queens lives are  fraught with many...
Honey bee and wasp – battle to the death

Honey bee and wasp – battle to the death

All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. The honey bee is busy collecting nectar to return to her hive which would be used to make honey and feed the young honey bee...