How bumblebee friendly are you?

[Martin H]

3244 in a small garden. Hopefully more next year!

[JustPotteringAbout]

2370
Small garden 70 sq m inc hard paving but it's rammed full of plants my dad planted for bees and insects as well as veg.
I don't know what half the flowering plants are yet, so score probably higher.
There are plenty European honeybees and eusocial bumble bees around though and habitats for solitary mason, plasterer miner bees and solitary wasps.
Doing OK for hedgehogs too and unfortunately midgies.
No eusocial wasps, in this garden, thankfully but there are two nests in another garden I look after, three until last Monday.

[veggiechicken]

I'm going on a Bumblebee Volunteer Training Day in September - I don't think I have to train to be a bumblebee though

[taff]

As a complate aside, one thing i didn't know and now do, is that bumblebees absolutely love love love flowering catmint.

I had a small bush last year that turned into a huge one this year [step away VC], and it's always got tem to twenty bublebees zipping in and out of it.

[mothhawk]

Yes, I've found that too taff, the nepeta I sowed last year has grown very tall and is full of bumble bees, and they do zip about, don't they? I've been trying to photograph them, ( for the bumblebee survey BeeWatch - Login ) but all I get mostly is a blur or an empty flower.

[Tiberius]

2604 for a medium sized garden. The quiz gave me a good few ideas for new plants for next year, I've always wanted a Lilac...now I just need to work out where to put one!?