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Habitats | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
http://bumblebeeconservation.org/about-bees/habitats
Top tips for bee ID. Why bees need help. Finding bees in winter or bad weather. Bumblebees depend almost entirely on flowers for their food and, like us, they benefit from a varied diet. When the queens are establishing nests. When nests are growing. When nests are producing new queens and males. When queens are fattening up ready for hibernation. It is very easy to find plants for the garden that are good for bumblebees. Visit our Bee kind. What bumblebees look for in a nest site. Make a donation today.
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A plea for the bumblebee – spriggy twigging
https://spriggy-twigging.com/2016/05/12/a-plea-for-the-bumblebee
Rambling musings of a nature lover and budding botanist. A plea for the bumblebee. May 12, 2016. May 21, 2016. There has been a lot of media coverage about the plight of the honeybee over the last year and it seems that many people are now aware of the issues surrounding their struggles and what they can do to help. Less so for the furry relative of the honeybee, the wild and untamed bumblebee. 8220;So what can I do? For inspiration or to see how bumblebee friendly your garden is. May 13, 2016 at 10:27 am.
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Bees | Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint, Keymer, Ditchling Transition - HKD
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Report on Activities 2014/15. Report on Activities 2012/13. Build a rain garden. Really Local Food Directory. Flooding streams and rivers. Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint, Keymer, Ditchling Transition – HKD. Building stronger communities to cope with climate change. British bee numbers have fallen dramatically in recent years, affected by disease, chemicals and habitat loss. Suitable food and nesting sites are getting scarcer. Wwwsussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/page00052.htm? The honeybee is under threat.
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Bumblebees and Farming | West Lavington Farms
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Organic farm in the heart of Wiltshire. Posted April 16, 2013 by westlavingtonfarms in Conservation. That’s an incredible amount and it clearly shows how much we rely on pollinators to help our crops and pastures! BBCT offer some great advice on gardening for bumblebees as well, so take a look at their website. And make sure you visit their Bee Kind. Tool to find out how bee-friendly your garden is and what plants you could plant to make it even better! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Lifecycle | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
http://bumblebeeconservation.org/about-bees/lifecycle
Top tips for bee ID. Why bees need help. Finding bees in winter or bad weather. Bumblebees are social creatures and have an interesting lifecycle. They live in a nest ruled by a queen who is helped by smaller female (worker) bumblebees. The Cuckoo bumblebee lifecycle. Ldquo;Bumblebees are key factors in our wildlife. If they disappear many of our plants will not bear fruit. I am proud to be associated with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust”. Make a donation today.
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Wildflower Meadows - Freshford & Limpley Stoke Environment Working Group ( FLEWG )
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Freshford and Limpley Stoke Environment Working Group. Our Local Wildlife Habitats. Our Local Wildlife Species. 5 YEAR BIODIVERSITY PLAN. RECORDING AND OTHER INFORMATON. A walk in June 2016 to view orchids, including bee and pyramid orchids. All by kind invitation of Stephen and Gitte Dawson to explore the Galleries field. See more of Tania's work, contact her and purchase her books at wildthingspublishing. Provide a local mix EM18 St Catherine Mixture (limestone grassland). Bees’ Needs website,.
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Mission bumblebee | Front Gardens of Cardiff
https://cardiffgardeners.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/mission-bumblebee
Front Gardens of Cardiff. Celebrating the gardeners who brighten up our neighbourhood. April 12, 2015. Bees are my favourite garden visitor. As I planned my garden, I decided one of my success ratings would be to walk out in to my garden at any point during daylight hours, and hear a. Mission No. 1: Ensure my garden has a good source of nectar and pollen close to chosen bumblebee nesting sites. Other important spring-flowering plants include lupins, comfrey, vetch and fruit trees. The small garden bumble...
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Insects | Miss Apis Mellifera
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Adventures of an aromatherapy beekeeper. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Welcome to the luxury bee hotel. July 14, 2016. I love to watch the bees hard at work in our garden, but often think they deserve a holiday. So I was thrilled to get an email from Fiona Lane of Taylors of Harrogate about the world’s first luxury bee hotel. Welcome to the poshest insect residence where tired bees can hang up their wings and enjoy a five-star overnight stay in an indulgent spa. Different bees speci...
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Bees | Miss Apis Mellifera
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Adventures of an aromatherapy beekeeper. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. July 31, 2016. The queen cells had been torn down. A worker crawled out of a gaping hole in the side of a cell as I wondered who had given the order a new queen or rebel workers? I went forwards and backwards again through the frames in the hope of finding her and making an artificial swarm in the nuc that was now conveniently empty. The queen was nowhere to be found, although I could see the nest had doubled...