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Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:53:52 GMT

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From last year they were Sleeping Beeuties 2018 to

This year 2019 again these little kind and sweet bees have caught me unaware and when I opened

the sleeping box there were a few anxious looking faces! So up went the boxes sharpish

and they were put on top to feel the fresh air and off they flew ~ they'll be back always

to the same spot they first remember.

These are the boxes facing South in the hot sun.

This is a box with an emerging bee under the release box top.

Wildlife have no respect for photographers!

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

liggerz87 — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:54:35 GMT

Wow love it looks so cool and the bee on bottom photo maybe do a David Attenborough and do a video with speech on it and upload to YouTube and then link here lol

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:01:19 GMT

Thank you !! @liggerz87

Well "one" can only try!

Step by step @Cleoriff had to instruct me how to add a link from last year just now.

So Video and speech may take a little longer especially when they don't hang around

for long!

Watch this space "as they say"

Thanks!

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Marjo — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:27:22 GMT

How sweet @TallTrees! 🐝 Always nice to read about your bees. Felt a bit sad for a second when I read that you let them out because I thought they'd just fly away to stay in some stranger's flowerbeds and that's the last you see them. Glad to hear they come back to the same spot!

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:24:16 GMT

Hi @ Marjo
They do fly around my garden and neighbour's gardens too. Of course I am always concerned for them🤗 There is a bench under the boxes, I sit there and watch them coming and going 🙂

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

ComaChameleon — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:24:35 GMT

@TallTrees

Awesome

Are they living after in that boxes?

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Cleoriff — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:02:06 GMT

@TallTrees

How lovely to hear your Sleeping Beeuties have awakened.

I will follow them with great interest

(Congratulations also on posting the link to your other thread)

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:35:43 GMT

Hi @ComaChameleon

They use the tubes as nests for the next generation of Red Mason Bees,

Usually about 10 little bees to one tube.

The new generation of red mason bees of 2019 only live until about June/July after they have placed

the new generation of bees into the tubes ready for the following year.

They do use the nesting boxes over night if it gets cold during April - July.

There is a link on my post showing what they look like last year

about October.

(Thanks to @Cleoriff who taught me how to put in a link )

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:38:18 GMT

Thanks @Cleoriff very pleased to have learned the "link" !!

The weather has been fabulous for them but

tonight is going to be very cold, so they will

probably pop back into the box.

They are not all out yet it will take a couple of

weeks.

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:43:24 GMT

Luv hearing about your BEEuties @TallTrees & with pictures too, thank you for posting

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Cleoriff — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:45:00 GMT

Yes, I did wonder if they had been 'conned' by the recent good weather?

I have read this week about other 'hibernating animals' waking up a month earlier than normal...

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:47:03 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Glad you enjoy it, I know you are for nature too.

Bye for now

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:00:52 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
Hi @Anonymous
Glad you enjoy it, I know you are for nature too.
Bye for now

thank you @TallTrees ... yes, I am for nature

Today I received a delivery of 10 suet & seed filled coconut halves ... these I put up 2 at a time in the old hawthorn hedge along the canal towpath to feed 2 flocks of sparrows

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:24:33 GMT

That is so kind of you @Anonymous

these dear little birds are on the

RSPB endangered list, you are a star

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:33:45 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
That is so kind of you @Anonymous
these dear little birds are on the
RSPB endangered list, you are a star

thank you @TallTrees yes, sparrows are on the British Endangered Species List

I get simple pleasure out of watching the birds at the feeders

I did try some in my yard but no birds came ... however ... I have a cat so perhaps it's for the best

I do have a ceramic bird bath on the outside table ... & ... the neighbourhood blackbird comes to drink

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:24:56 GMT

@TallTrees this is an insect hotel I saw recently in the garden of the Friends Meeting House, Skipton (aka Quakers) ... will go again soon to see if there are any insects about

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

liggerz87 — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:52:07 GMT

You can do the video and talk and when you happy with video press share and then select YouTube

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

ComaChameleon — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:20:16 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
Hi @ComaChameleon
They use the tubes as nests for the next generation of Red Mason Bees,
Usually about 10 little bees to one tube.
The new generation of red mason bees of 2019 only live until about June/July after they have placed
the new generation of bees into the tubes ready for the following year.
They do use the nesting boxes over night if it gets cold during April - July.
There is a link on my post showing what they look like last year
about October.
(Thanks to @Cleoriff who taught me how to put in a link )

@TallTrees

Yes, I saw that thread last year, but was asking myself many questions. As I only know hives and people getting honey from them.

So you dont get honey, they dont life in it ... Where do they sleep?

It sounds more like a bee-hotel

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:11:41 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

That is nice of the Quaker Hall how considerate of them.

There will be insects and by the look of it tubes that can

attract solitary bees. Well Done Q.H Skipton and you

for noticing it.

Re: Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

TallTrees — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:24:00 GMT

Hi @ComaChameleon

My bees and most other bees are solitary bees. They do not produce honey in a comb.

They put pollen and nectar in with their egg and seal it up. So their off spring have

the food to develop. Each tube 7 to 10 bee cells.

These bees Red Mason Bees are essential pollinators they are the best pollinators

of all bees because they carry lots of pollen on their "woolly" bodies and distribute

this between all plants as they fetch and carry for their off-spring.

They are specialists in Fruit Orchards for pollinating all the fruit, very popular with big

fruit growers. Some put up these Bee Hotels in the farm along side their orchards.

They are Bee Hotels my hotel has the exact size of tube to attract the Red Mason Bee

Other hotels have different sizes to attract a number of different bees.