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Have you seen many bees this July

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We've got loads of hover flies too @Topbird ... buzzing really loudly especially around the pond.  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I would love to keep honey bees but have no space. So might set up nest boxes for solitary bees and bumbles.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    In east Midland numbers dropped as the heat went up,but now bumblebees are returning. Butterflies are mainly white , with the odd brown one( they are so fast have yet to get close enough to id) but the blues have disappeared. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Lots of bees on the lavender this morning ... they look like wild bees. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Were they wild? Well they weren't very pleased about it? 
    Lots of bees here in Birmingham mostly bumbling into the house and having to be shooed out! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lots of bees here, I don’t know one from the other though <hugeembarrassedsmiley>
    theyve particularly like the Aconitum Lupins,Foxgloves and Knautia.
    ive got Cerinthe and Borage coming on. 
    I’m just hoping the rest of the plants flower as this drought is now taking its toll. Rain forecast for next week so pray they stay alive till then🙏🏻
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    Lots of bees of all varieties and masses of hoverflies. Our honeybees have gone to the blackberry bushes on the field margins next to us. They won't bother with any garden flowers if there are richer pickings nearby!
  • ChrisWMChrisWM Posts: 214
    edited July 2018
    As with Topbird, plenty of all of those; i.e. bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths.
    If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    Few honey bees, plenty of bumble bees an average amount of dragon flies and butterflies. Moth numbers seem to be up
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    By far the best year for bees and butterflies for a long time here, positively swarming with them. We’ve even had a hummingbird hawk moth in the last couple of days. Butterflies in particular are noticeably up
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