Bees!!!!

[oggie68]

I have just been round to my parents house. They have a large Catoniasta bush up there garage its about 6ft x 6ft. There must have been a couple of hundred Bees on it. Amazing. They have a smaller one in the front garden which was exactly the same. So want Bees on your plot get a Catoniasta!

[Lottieval]

I also have a cotoneaster in my front garden, there are several varieties of this shrub, mine is multistemmed and about 8-9ft tall. It too is a haven for bees and also for birds who love the berries in the autumn, in addition I get insect eaters like goldcrests and warblers in it who seem to find many tiny things too eat under its leaves.It is one of my favourite small trees (tho' technically it's a shrub as it is multistemmed), it also reproduces very easily from the seeds which the blackbirds drop

[Two_Sheds]

I hate cotoneaster ... the council plant it everywhere.

The bees can have borage and comfrey instead, humph.

[scarey55]

I have loads of different sorts of bees on my chive flowers - they seem to love them and the chive flowers are so beautiful.

[dammad49]

I think I saw my first honeybee of the year today, didnt have specs to be certain. Very worrying, bluebells, rosemary etc. all in full flower and until today had only seen a few solitary bumbles.

[Sweepster]

Last year, the most popular plants in my garden seemed to be(e) lungwort, oregano, cornflowers and passionflower. This fella was having a feast

[Two_Sheds]

I think I saw my first honeybee of the year today, ... Very worrying.

Bees need the temp to be about 16C ... it was a very long, cold spring this year.

[ashymark]

There were plenty out and about near me yesterday. Not sure what type they were but there were decent numbers of them buzzing about.

[eye1der]

one of my colonys decided to swarm this morning, what i sight it was! like black snow,the sky was full of them! thankfully the queen settled on a fence on next doors plot and her entorage soon settled with her so i put a box over them, il go and recover them this evening...that will be 5 colonys now, getting a bit serious!!!