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Post by 2banger on Jul 16, 2021 17:10:26 GMT 1
Bumble bees have made nest in old small rodent burrow in our garden, interesting watch , just shame they won't be using the burrow for long before they move on.
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Post by geoffb on Jul 16, 2021 17:18:10 GMT 1
Got any pics? 🐝
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Post by headcoats on Jul 16, 2021 18:20:14 GMT 1
We have a wasps nest  |
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Post by steve h on Jul 16, 2021 20:22:33 GMT 1
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Post by 2banger on Jul 16, 2021 22:51:28 GMT 1
Yes looks like they've been there since spring , only just noticed, late July is when they leave.
Very interested in them being back next spring, useful tips on internet for encouraging there return.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Jul 16, 2021 22:54:39 GMT 1
The tennent from my rental house called the other day saying she had a wasps nest. Personally I thought it was solitary bees under the roof tiles but had to treat them ☹
Steve
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Post by steve h on Jul 16, 2021 23:31:27 GMT 1
Thats a shame, folks are a***holes, anything they dont understand and its a "kill it"
Had the neighbours panicking last year when some tree bumbles were in their roof. They left them alone and it was no problem, after telling them so.
Watching a honey bee swarm is a fantastic sight, especially when you are in their midst!!
A queen fell out of a hive in the garden....and the girls followed her, wife picked her up and put her back in the hive with no suit no gloves ect.
Was a great spectacle!... neighbours all away whilst it was ongoing, good job...the screams would of been deafening. (screamed at a hedgehog on their lawn.... it's one of the reasons I hate living here surrounded by imbeciles who know nothing of the natural world and understand even less)
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Post by rigga on Jul 17, 2021 9:49:26 GMT 1
Nests are fascinating things to look at when they are empty and cut open.
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Post by stirling11 on Jul 17, 2021 10:19:24 GMT 1
The only good wasp is a dead one
I hate the buggers
Bumble bees are great little insects, the wing size:body ratio is all out of whack and still they fly, the physics of it is just so wrong, yet they defy convention, amazing insect engineering
Honey bees aren’t bad either except when they decide that my BBQ lid is a great place to build a hive in, I came home from a holiday to find they’d taken up squatters rights lol
Unfortunately they had to vacate their premises - forcibly
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Post by Gitram on Jul 17, 2021 18:00:28 GMT 1
The only good wasp is a dead one wasps eat midgies and that in my book is a good thing.. and they pollinate flowers too.. stings are a bit nippy tho marti |
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Post by peddrotzr on Jul 17, 2021 19:57:09 GMT 1
Bumble bees have made nest in old small rodent burrow in our garden, interesting watch , just shame they won't be using the burrow for long before they move on. I was asked to post this photo for 2banger, very sorry I didnt get to do it this morning. Hope this helps  best regards Johnny C. |
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Post by stusco on Jul 17, 2021 20:38:15 GMT 1
I was lying on a sun lounger a few years ago in mexico watching a bird doing somersaults only to realise there was a swarm of bees attacking it to say i shat myself is an understatement 😱it was only ten feet above my bed
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Post by markhoopy on Jul 18, 2021 15:29:46 GMT 1
A few summers ago I was sat out on the decking with my dad and every ten minutes or so he had to shift to one side or stand up because there was a bee flying in front of his head.
After the third or fourth time we watched it - it had burrowed a hole about 10mm dia into the mortar on the wall behind where my dad had been and it was taking dead aphids into the hole and leaving them there.
Google told be they are solitary bees and the hole they bore is about three inches deep. They lay a single egg at the bottom then put food in with it, seal it all in, lay another egg, add food, seal it in etc until the hole is full then leave it.
Following spring the egg nearest the surface hatches first because it warms up in the sun quicker than the deeper ones. Juvenile eats the food store, breaks out and flies away. Next egg then warms, hatches, eats food, flies away until all the eggs have hatched and moved on.
If the bee had laid all the eggs together and left enough food for them all the first bee that hatched would eat all the food and the other eggs too before leaving the hole, hence the separate chambers.
Nature is just amazing.
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Post by 4l04ever on Jul 19, 2021 9:25:49 GMT 1
We have a few tree bees who come to make nests around our place, but this year a f**king load of wasps decided to move in too, so I saw the entrance to their nest and just held the Dyson over it for 10 mins at a time. Got about 500 of the b*****ds! Then sprayed some wasp killer in the Dyson. Getting a bit less busy now. Will keep using the Dyson Waspinator for a few days until they have all gone... :-) They make a nice satisfying click when they go up the pipe!
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Post by 4l04ever on Jul 20, 2021 21:06:46 GMT 1
I clicked another 150 wasps yesterday. The numbers are starting to dwindle  |
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Post by steve h on Jul 20, 2021 22:14:13 GMT 1
Petrol into wasp nests nails them. Small bit of hose, funnel on end, stick hose into burrow, throw sand or soil over hose and burrow (stops them escaping up the side of hose. Then pour petrol into funnel I have a funnel with a built in filter in it so no chance of wasp escape when the hose is inserted and sand thrown over. Dont need to light the petrol, the fumes do the job....well you can light it for a spectacular errrrmmmm "event/death" Oh and do it at night  Been out tending our hives today and there were a few wasps hanging around  just hope its not a repeat of 2019. |
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Post by steve h on Jul 22, 2021 22:13:16 GMT 1
A pic from last summer. Tree bumbles fanning at the entrance (cooling the nest inside the bird box) Blue tits raised a brood before they moved in.   DSCF0124 by Ernest Stoppage, on Flickr |
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Post by stirling11 on Jul 23, 2021 18:24:25 GMT 1
Petrol into wasp nests nails them. Small bit of hose, funnel on end, stick hose into burrow, throw sand or soil over hose and burrow (stops them escaping up the side of hose. Then pour petrol into funnel I have a funnel with a built in filter in it so no chance of wasp escape when the hose is inserted and sand thrown over. Dont need to light the petrol, the fumes do the job....well you can light it for a spectacular errrrmmmm "event/death" Oh and do it at night Been out tending our hives today and there were a few wasps hanging around just hope its not a repeat of 2019. Lighting it is so much more fun and as you say do it at night Its rather spectacular in a morbid sort of way The damage a swarm of wasps can do to apiaries is quite extraordinary |
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just hope its not a repeat of 2019.