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Rotten tree stump

PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
edited April 2019 in Problem solving
We have a very large (like 4  feet across) very rotten tree stump which needs removing. However there is a bee's nest inside the root. Now I hate disturbing them, but the stump really has to come out. So, I was wondering if,  being still early in the year,  they will build a new nest elsewhere?
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  • BobFlannigonBobFlannigon Posts: 619
    Find out if there are any local beekeepers, they may well come and relocate it for you.

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Not honey bees. These are just one of the communal  living mining bee types.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    The stump is more wood dust than anything else. One touch and it disintegrates. Sad, but it will have to be cleared up. 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited April 2019
    Why does the stump have to come out?  Couldn't you just leave nature to take its course?  Some people go to a lot of trouble and/or expense to create insect habitats in their gardens, you've got one for nowt.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Because the leaking water main goes along right next to it.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2019
    Palustris said:
    Because the leaking water main goes along right next to it.
    Aaaargh! 😱

    Maybe part of the rotting stump can be dug out and ‘replanted’ in a quiet corner elsewhere?  It’s obviously already a great wildlife habitat and sound perfect for attracting stag beetles and similar bugs and beetles looking for a home. 😊 

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





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    If there are any bits that could be salvaged you could try this.🙂

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    No thanks. This garden is full of tree stumps already. And as I said the wood is barely held together sawdust. Touch it and it crumbles away. Just watched as parts of it fell away with the strength of Storm Hannah blowing across the garden.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah well ... sounds as if you’ve already got the bugs well catered for 👍 

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





  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    edited April 2019
    We have indeed. Not as many bees here as there were in our previous garden, but that is probably because there are so few flowers here..........yet. At least there will have been no spraying here as it looks as if the garden has not really been gardened for the last 5 years or so. We get the impression that some jobbing gardener has just come in  and taken hedge trimmers to all the shrubs when paid to do so.
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