I actually saw a bee today - very briefly just before the 80 mph gales wooshed it off of the window towards the cottoneaster - hope it found a safe landing! what an abysmal day! birds were not happy at all, I think they had motion sickness trying to cling desparatley to the feeders as they were swaying in the gales and the few leaves I had on the hawthorne were blown about 30 feet into the air and away into next door's garden.
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Great shot of the southern hawker, the bold green/yellow stripes on the thorax just behind the eyes are key to identifying this large dragonfly. They are usually active from June until October so your sighting is quite a late one, maybe an indication of the mild autumn we have had in some parts.
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hi Ian
I think there is a milder climate as to what we had last year.
I have seen flies, Wasps, butterflies, Bees, Ladybirds and all sorts - nature is confused {puzzled}
All creatures great, and small are confused by it all.
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Hi all
Just thought i'd mention that i saw two queen bees out and about today, both feeding on evening primrose in the wildlife garden at The Lodge! I would suspect they are taking advantage of the clear November sunshine before they settle down in their burrows for the winter!
Kezmo I actually saw a bee today - very briefly just before the 80 mph gales wooshed it off of the window towards the cottoneaster - hope it found a safe landing! what an abysmal day! birds were not happy at all, I think they had motion sickness trying to cling desparatley to the feeders as they were swaying in the gales and the few leaves I had on the hawthorne were blown about 30 feet into the air and away into next door's garden.
Hi, I had a vey large bumble bee sitting on my patio today soaking up the warmth of the sun. however when the sun disappeared the bee never moved, it must have been looseing heat, i gentley removed it and placed it under a bush hopeing it woukld live.I also had a wonderful coloured butterfly sitting on my window ledge,this must have been taking in the warmth of the sun,the colour was orange brown,black , yellow and red.
Hello Shirley, welcome to the forum.
It's amazing isn't it that you can still see butterflies nearly into December - your butterfly sounds very pretty I wonder what it was? Yesterday I saw a few bees buzzing around the ivy in the morning but couldn't say what they were. Where we are, the weather has turned cold with sharp persistent downpours since yesterday lunchtime so doubt I shall see much today.
I saw my first bee of the year this morning. It’s not a particularly good photo but it is clearly a bee. It’s feeding on a Honeysuckle.
Life is too short to waste.
Looks like a domestic honey bee just popped out in the sunshine for a forage. Do you have any bee hives very near you?
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Not that I know of but I do get a huge number of these bees in my garden in the summer.
Lots of bees were out yesterday, honey bees and Bumble bees. My winter flowering Honeysuckle has bee a real lifeline for them this year. I have got some crocus out but everything else is sill in bud (apart from the snowdrops which they don’t seem to bother with).
Has anybody else seen any bees and what were they feeding on?
Saw my first Bumble Bee on Saturday 6th. Just flying through at about waist height. Too quick to see what kind it was but it was nice to see all the same.FP
It’s another sunny (but cold) day today, I’ll take my identification sheet out with me today and see if I can work out what “flavor” they are. I’m sure one was a queen bee because she was huge.
Wildlife friendly It’s another sunny (but cold) day today, I’ll take my identification sheet out with me today and see if I can work out what “flavor” they are. I’m sure one was a queen bee because she was huge.
She will be a queen, just woken from hibernation.
Unlike the honey bee she will have to gather pollen and nectar for her first offspring.
It takes 5 weeks from egg to adult and there just won't be any workers around just yet
dangerous Wildlife friendly It’s another sunny (but cold) day today, I’ll take my identification sheet out with me today and see if I can work out what “flavor” they are. I’m sure one was a queen bee because she was huge. She will be a queen, just woken from hibernation. Unlike the honey bee she will have to gather pollen and nectar for her first offspring. It takes 5 weeks from egg to adult and there just won't be any workers around just yet
So the smaller Bumble bee would have been a queen of a different species? I’ve been too busy today to go on a bee hunt.
It's likely,yes.
Take a look here
http://www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk/