Category: Bees
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Winter Active Bumblebees
Look out for winter active bumblebees in your garden and report your findings to BWARS
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Male Bumblebees
Male bees are the lager louts of bee worldd, hanging around in nectar bars waiting for the girls
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Shrill Carder Bee
There are a fair few rare bee species, with some literally on the brink of extinction, but few more so than the Shrill Carder Bee (Bombus sylvarum).
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Honeybee Swarms
In bee world, the honeybee is just one species of the 276 or so different bee species in the UK. Mostly they are domesticated creatures, kept in hives by beekeepers, but wild colonies do exist. In recent years there has been a huge rise in people starting to keep honeybees, sometimes in a misguided attempt…
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White-tailed Bumblebee
As spring starts in earnest you will start to see large, fluffy bees bombing around your gardens. You might hear them first as they resemble low flying helicopters as they navigate their way around foraging for food and surveying for a suitable nest site.
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Bee Rescue
Have you found an exhausted, bedraggled bee that needs some help. You can try and save it, with this simple ‘Bee Rescue’ remedy
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The Buff-Tailed Bumblebee
In early spring, when out and about in your garden, look out for these fluffy flying golf balls, whizzing around the garden searching for nectar and pollen. They are loud and large and pretty unmistakable and start to emerge in February. These are the queens of this beautiful bumblebee and they are some of the…