First ever wool carder bees in garden and nest boxes! The wool carder bee, (Anthidium manicatum), arriving in my wildlife garden absolutely took me by surprise. It was the first time I had noticed them. I was even more surprised when I found several females sleeping...
Pesticides and Bees:Keeping Bees Safe In Our Gardens Research Project Prof. Dave Goulson and Walacea (Back science you believe in) have joined forces to help you to help bees and buy truly bee friendly flowers. To get some background information read my article,...
Effectively castrated by the nematode Sphaerularia bombi, these queen bumblebees cannot nest The queen becomes a surrogate mother for the nematode worms When hibernating in the soil, the fertilised female nematode, Sphaerularia bombi, which only infects bumblebee...
PLEASE clean your Red Mason bee (Osmia bicornis) cocoons! Pollen mites attach themselves to the bees using huge claws as they leave their natal nest, hitch a lift, (phoresy), and transfer to a female during mating hitching a lift back on their new host to drop off...
No milk or bread today. It makes hedgehogs ill! Many people now thankfully, know that bread and milk is a ‘no-no’ for hedgehogs. There are others who simply do not know it can be harmful for them. Being lactose intolerant, too much can give them diarrhoea!...
Cold, chilled 1st Female Red Mason bee 2016 On 21st April, the weather here was unseasonably warm in my south facing sun trap garden. Early afternoon, I looked inside my orchard bee nest box. and saw two Red Mason males (Osmia bicornis) had emerged and flown away,...
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