Wildlife (Bee) hotel very popular!

[Nicos]

Fantastic experience today for me.....

We were standing chatting about 3 ft from our bee hotel ( which OH made in the summer)
Right in front of us a solitary bee flew into one of the drilled holes and stayed in there!...yey!!!

fingers crossed it'll decide to use it!


Anyone else seen a similar thing ( bird box etc) happening inside something they have created for wildlife???

[happyhumph]

Not exactly created but since we cleared the stone bank of most of the weeds and grass have seen lots of solitary wasps and bees using it, & small birds poking around in it for snails & plenty of field mice as well.

Do rats in compost heaps count?

Lots of woodlice etc in heaps of old logs (put there for the purpose) as well as the odd common lizard.

[Nicos]

Lovely to see the wildlife springing back into action isn't it???

( well, obviously not things like rats, Vine weevil etc )

[happyhumph]

Have seen some absolutely enormous bumble bees in the last few days - giant things. And the world's largest wolf spider in a cardboard box I wanted for the garden. Normally fine with spiders but this one...... (shudders!)

[mrbadexample]

Sometime in 2013 I was standing by my bee hotel when I heard some scratching noises.

I waited around a bit and was lucky enough to see a brand new leafcutter bee emerge from its hole. Chuffed to bits, I was.

[veggiechicken]

Here's a dozy bumblebee that crawled out of a heap of clay flowerpots a couple of weeks ago. I picked her up and gave her some sugar water in the sunshine. She supped, stretched her legs and opened her wings. Then off she went without a backward glance.



I'm guessing that there are mites on her back?

Lots of bumblebees around at the moment

[Cadalot]

Here is a Wren that used a bird box I made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Pv2JkBCso

[vivienz]

We have lots of birdboxes on our house, including several sparrow terraces that are all fully populated. There are plenty in the garden, too, that get reasonable take up, although the big stands of mature ivy (that our neighbours get very agitated about) support a huge amount of wildlife, including nesting birds. The sparrows are very entertaining and you can hear them before you can see our house as you walk along the street towards it.

Out here at work, there are fields next to the factory and we've put birdboxes on the large oak trees along the boundary. This year, a brave blue tit ousted the nuthatch from his box by getting in there early. The nuthatch has moved on to one of the others, though, and is making his usual alterations and putting mud over the top of the entrance. Pretty birds.