Where Are All The Bees ?

[SparklyKid]

This piccy is known as a "bees candy store". In previous years it would be full of bees, at least a dozen, hardly any this year.

Forget polar bears and snow leopards, the planet needs bees for our future.

Problem uploading pic,sorry.

[Canary42]

Poisoned by the likes of Monsanto with their "harmlesss" glyphosates.

[ummmm]

I think I saved one recently.

[SparklyKid]

If you see a bee resting, give it some diluted sugar, gives it a boost, so I read.

[SparklyKid]

http://tinypic.com/r/2v2fwpl/9


This is where I had lots last year or so.

[Prudie]

I have hundreds on my Michaelmas daisies at the moment :-)

[SparklyKid]

That is good to hear Prudie.

[ummmm]

I gave our bee sugar water. When I went to check on it it was gone.

[kvalidir]

We've still got quite a few around here but we are in the *** end of nowhere and a lot of organic ground around us. Loss of bees terrifies me, we're stuffed without them, plus I like the little furry bumblers.

[ladybirder]

I have saved quite a few bees by giving them a drink of sweet water and then putting them onto a flowering plant. They need all the help we can give them. I read ages ago we are having to import them from somewhere (can't remember where).

[SparklyKid]

Wasps are apparently quite useful to us, though I hate them with a passion,lol.

[dannyk13]

I had a nest of bumble bees under my eaves this summer but the season is now over.Also it is getting a bit cold for bees.

[SparklyKid]

I feel better now, thanks to those who care about our buzzy little pals.

[Chipchopper]

I have noticed a sharp decline in numbers, in my patch and poor harvests that follow.
They are small but play a vital part in keeping a balanced ecosystem and more must be done to increase their numbers.

[kvalidir]

I tend to like all animals even wasps, but I do love the panic they cause in a Beer garden :) x

[SparklyKid]

Wasps have a tendency to deliberately annoy. Buzzing round your face for no apparent reason.

[EDDIE51]

We are into October. Most of them are starting hibernation.

[dannyk13]

// Buzzing round your face for no apparent reason.//
When the bees were occupying my eaves if I stood nearby a single bee would always come and fly round me as though giving me an inspection.

[ladybirder]

EDDIE Bumble bees hibernate, honey bees do not. Although honey bees and bumble bees are very closely related, their winter behaviors are very different. A colony of honey bees will live throughout the entire winter, actively keeping the nest warm and safe. ... Only the queen bumble bees hibernate until spring.

[seekeerz]

Very happy to see our wisteria absolutely buzzing with bees this year .....it's been beautiful inspite of very little rain and the past few days has been a hive of industry
(Pardon the pun)

[twix123]

I've not seen a lot of bees recently, but my golf course was inundated with ladybirds this afternoon !