Tag: Queen Bees
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Emerging Queens
The first bumblebees we see in late winter and early spring are the overwintered Queen bees setting up a nest
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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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Flowering Currant
(Ribes sanguineum) It’s not just perennials and spring flowering bulbs that are great bee plants, garden shrubs play an important role too. You need to look at the plant as a whole, especially when it is an established specimen. Flowering currants are a great bee plant. Take a close look at each cluster of rich…
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Early Bee Plants
What’s in flower for emerging bees in your garden? This is a critical time in bee world, late winter flowers are a vital food source Take a look around your garden? Are your crocuses flattened after the storms? Or have you still got drifts of snowdrops in flower? February and March are a tricky time…