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Missing garden visitors

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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I was lucky enough to walk through a wild flower meadow a couple of days ago about 8pm in the evening.The whole place was alive with bees,butterflies and other insects.As I walked along the path the grasshoppers moved away like a tide!
    They are all just being sensible and staying out of the scorching heat!!!!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bees don't actually have much sense of taste because a weak sugar solution is of no use to them.

    How is that? Could you say more?

  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Fire said:
    Bees don't actually have much sense of taste because a weak sugar solution is of no use to them.

    How is that? Could you say more?

    Bees need a lot of sugar, so they ignore weak solution. They ignore it because they can't taste it.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Not if they are on their last legs they don't, the bee I saved a few days ago was very happy with a weak sugar solution.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I hear it really helps. Never honey to be used, though.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    It helps them if they are in trouble and cant get to a flower and you give it to them directly, the problem is if they have enough energy to find your sugar solution, they will also have enough energy to find a flower and some nectar so it wouldnt really be of any use I dont think 
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I have buckets of bees in the garden. Even more than usual, so much so, I am wondering if there is a hive/nest nearby........Don't normally get a lot of butterflies so can't tell for them. 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    I have bees and butterflies. Three tortoiseshell (?) butterflies while I was pottering in the garden for some half an hour this evening.



  • stewyfizzstewyfizz Posts: 161
    Had lots of bees this year. A lot more Miner bees too. Love those little things!
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  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    I've also noticed a lack of bees since the very hot weather,and my Salvias were covered in them,but an increase in butterflies,several colourful ones now as well as the whites.
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