I used to go inside at dusk for a while because I didn't like them flying near my head. We also had a cat that used to tip them upside down to watch the legs wiggle. I used to turn them back the right way with a stick.
I was wondering if I have done something wrong with the bee hotels. Maybe the bees have died over winter. The hotels were in the shed, but it has no door. It is dry but the temperature is similar to the outside. My bees haven’t emerged yet but it’s very in the morning hours and we hardly had a warmer day. Clouds up to 1 or 2 and if the sun comes out after 2.
Why were they in the shed? They really need to be outdoors preferably where they were originally colonised, or failing that on a sunny wall.
Ahh stag beetles! Someone please take a photo of theirs? I miss them! As kids, we used to always be scrabbling about looking for creatures, we'd inspect stag beetles by making them grab onto a tough stick.
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