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Need to move wild bees on

Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
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Over the year I've collected a vast amount of prunings, removed shrubs etc and started to clear a space ready for a big bonfire sometime in Oct.

As I cleared the area where the bonfire will be situated, I noticed lots of bees going in and out of an underground nest.
There's nowhere else to have the bonfire so any suggestions as to how to persuade them to move on?


Billericay - Essex

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    If theyre bumble bees, they will have finished and the queen gone into hibernation by late October. If they are honey  bees the brood lives over winter, But I think honeybees are less likely.

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Thanks both.

    They look like mini-bumble bees.

    I'll keep an eye on them and once activity has disappeared I'll get my inferno going.

    Can't leave it too late, or there will be hedgehogs hibernating in there!

    Thanks again

    Pete


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FleurisaFleurisa Posts: 779

    There could be hedgehogs in your pile at any time of the year not just when they are hibernating. You should always remake a bonfire before burning to check for anything inside it

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Yes I know Fleurisa - I had planned on a big bonfire last yr, but it got so late in the season I didn't have one in the end as I suspected there may be hedgehogs hibernating in there and wouldn't want to disturb them, so I have to confess to 2 yrs-worth of stuff to burn.

    Firstly I'll move everything, then re-build the bonfire.

    Once going it'll only take a couple of hrs to get rid of the lot.
    Then i can start again image

    I've got about 10ft x 8ft x 8ft of stuff to burn

    Just be grateful you're not a neighbour!

    Thanks

    Pete


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Can't beat a good burning Pete! image

    Lovely to have bees in your plot though, even if it's slightly inconvenient at times image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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