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Mistress Rose
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
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dpack
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 19 12:34 am Post subject: |
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dpack wrote: |
there has been a bee tragedy.
the colony of medium size, rounder than some, stripey white bums that were living in the roof over the road are missing from my bramble and their access hole.
nice people but they are moving so i expect they had a look in the attic. i don't like to ask if they relocated them or if they went for the OPs,
i might react badly to the answer.
at a guess there were a hundred or so in the colony and for 3 yrs they have visited everything that needed pollination over quite a distance
i still have almost as many species but the total number of tongues n tums has dropped by over half |
Bumble bee colonies only last one season, so, as long as some new queens survive, and there is habitat for the new colonies next year, you ought not to lose the species. As far as I know the Tree Bumblebee is the one most likely to use man made sites, so perhaps a few bird nest boxes, facing the same direction as the old nest sites, might welcome them next spring. hope it works.
Henry |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 19 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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the last 10% of the bramble flowers are blooming, quite a few bee species including a couple of new ones, about half a dozen hoverfly spp so far which is good news for the tomatoes as well, quite a few predators and no major outbreaks of prey.
i saw a very pretty small fly that is new to me, there are a lot of spp that covers but i will try to narrow it down
bird town , the sparrows are mostly 1 and 2nd clutch from this year at the mo, i expect the grown ups are working on clutch 3
some of them i know well enough to think i might understand the family links, there is a family with a tendency to cream coloured bits where you would not expect them which make personal id much easier.
it seems likely that a close look at feather patterns might show up other family sections of the flock.
there is sibling to younger sibling nurture in the family with waistcoats and morning coats and corporals stripes as well as parental care.
there are a lot where a close look at pattern might be useful for id etc but one little brown jobber looks very like another until you compare images with behaviour
the ménage a trois fat pigeons have a child, it has not got the hang of things yet and even though it is supervised etc etc . it may be cat free but it fails to understand why that is and that people can be ok but a pointy nosed thing is not.
at the mo it is gleaning sparrow seeds that fall out of the feeder for them and the sammisons who are a new generation.
ps re bees i have a feeling that they get blonder in the sun over the season, there are some that have been visiting for a while and they have gone from showroom plush to sunfaded upholstery over a couple of months.
could this be correct?
afaik they have one set of adult " fur " for life so it seems plausible.
it would mean that early or late examples could be quite different colours but the same individual.
i dont think bees would care for the comment but one of the orange pashmina ones is starting to look like a Victorian velvet sofa:lol: |
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Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Mistress Rose
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gz
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Jam Lady
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