Bumblebees

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  1. Kevin Johnson

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    Hi all apart from my gardening I absolutely adore bumblebees, so hence everything in the garden has to atract the bees. Buzz buzz.

    atb kevin:autlvs:
     
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      I have over 100 in my garden at the moment, they are all over the Mock Orange, Lilac and Cerinthe. I only wish they would find the Broad Bean flowers.
       
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        Yep couldn't agree more Kevin. :thumbsup: The lavender, erysimum and hebe are very busy at the moment!
         
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            I have a bumble bee nest in my garden. I believe they are Tree Bumble Bees which seem to be doubling in number every day now.

            Must get some pictures.
             
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              We have an abandoned nesting box in a silver birch tree which seems to have been colonised by bumble bees. To high to take a pic, but they are bigger than honey bees but smaller than big bumbles. Maybe atouch of yellow, but hard to see as they don't rest on their way in/ out of the hole. What could they be? Tree bees like jj's?
               
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                Found this nest this week
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                    Great pictures Armandii! :)
                     
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