Where are all the bees?

[Rita_Poon]

Loads in my garden on my Lavenders & my flowering Hebes - the buzzing noise is very loud ....

I'm very sorry and it is a very niche reference and it's unlikely well known, but this post took me back to 'the tunnel of prejudice' from south park way back. I'm sorry for laughing.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I am allergic to bee stings or a wasp stings - I have to take a tablet after the sting

That when the Techno music gets blasted up a few notches?

 

[Joey66]

That when the Techno music gets blasted up a few notches?

A Horsefly bite is the worst thing ever - septic in a few minutes....

 

[Rita_Poon]

A Horsefly bite is the worst thing ever - septic in a few minutes....

It'd make a helluva case for Nettles to solve...

 

[Joey66]

It'd make a helluva case for Nettles to solve...

Nettle wine or beer or Nitrogen fertiliser....

 

[blulouie]

Not Brentford - actual bees and butterflies, insects in general.

Normally at this time of year our garden in teeming with critters, this year hardly anything anywhere. Went for a walk with my dad yesterday, same thing and that was in the wilds,

My mate is a wasp nest remover (not sure of actual title) and he normally does about5-8 nests a day at this time of year.... this week he has one 2 in 6 days.

If you have not noticed, go outside and have a look. Buddleia etc - lifeless

My garden is stacked with bee's mate

More than .most years tbh.

 

[Joey66]

Not Brentford - actual bees and butterflies, insects in general.

Normally at this time of year our garden in teeming with critters, this year hardly anything anywhere. Went for a walk with my dad yesterday, same thing and that was in the wilds,

My mate is a wasp nest remover (not sure of actual title) and he normally does about5-8 nests a day at this time of year.... this week he has one 2 in 6 days.

If you have not noticed, go outside and have a look. Buddleia etc - lifeless

The Insecticide they plant in pellets on crops has seen them off - it's a systemic pesticide granule that stays in the plant systems for months as the bees pollinate the crops - fatal same with caterpillars ... The EU allowed it ..... saying it was safe .... I used to dress up like a space man while putting the pellets in the pots in the late 1970s - killed any plant pest - when I retied I used predators in each green house hooked them on the plant worked great .... outside is the problem the predators would just fly off anywhere ....

 

[blulouie]

I’ve hardly seen any Swallows, House Martins or Swifts this year too, who live solely on insects.

However I’ve just been for my morning trail run and saw loads of butterflies basking in the sun.

It’s got to be down to how wet it’s been.

Take a walk around Hale farmland there's plenty of Swifts , there were thousands with that ant hatch last week.
Not so many Swallows tho , not even seen one House martin.
Strange summer.

 

[COYBL25]

I am allergic to bee stings or a wasp stings - I have to take a tablet after the sting

If one of those Asian Hornets stung you Joey, I don’t think you’d ever get up.

Monsters.

 

[COYBL25]

Take a walk around Hale farmland there's plenty of Swifts , there were thousands with that ant hatch last week.
Not so many Swallows tho , not even seen one House martin.
Strange summer.

There was loads of House Martins nesting under the eaves of the retail park in Speke last year, but only about a dozen this year.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

My garden is stacked with bee's mate

More than .most years tbh.

Mad, that’s defo not the general consensus

Maybe different areas

 

[blulouie]

Mad, that’s defo not the general consensus

I get that
This year I've gone well overboard on baskets , planters & borders all with heavy crops of flowers .
Neighbours don't really bother with bedding plants but mine work a treat.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I get that
This year I've gone well overboard on baskets , planters & borders all with heavy crops of flowers .
Neighbours don't really bother with bedding plants but mine work a treat.

The thing is, my wife went all in on bee friendly plants and every year they’ve been full - this year absolutely nothing

Very strange

 

[Joey66]

If one of those Asian Hornets stung you Joey, I don’t think you’d ever get up.

Monsters.

The old saying never stir up a Hornets nest ...

 

[Dharma]

Not heard a Skylark since I was a kid.