Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

[TallTrees]

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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!

[TallTrees]

Ah I just pipped you to the post for once 😀 @Cleoriff 😃

[jonsie]

Not seen any bees 🐝 today but I've seen a wasp on this glorious summers day . ... It's dead now... I'm going to hell ain't I? 

[TallTrees]

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@jonsie wrote:

Not seen any bees 🐝 today but I've seen a wasp on this glorious summers day . ... It's dead now... I'm going to hell ain't I? 

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The time has come The Walrus said to speak of many things of shoes and ships and sealing wax : of cabbages and Kings -and why the sea is boiling hot and whether wasps should die

[jonsie]

They invade my house then they die 555

[Anonymous]

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@TallTrees wrote:

Cancelled as not good will try again  ;   Made it larger so better ~ 

This is my first attempt of showing a video of the bees coming and going @liggerz87 

hope it works, if not back to the drawing board.

Putting in a photo of the little bees in the tubes (close up)

two little ones bottom

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Thank you @TallTrees for the vid & enlarged pic ... lovely to see the 2 little bees in their tubes ... did you make the tubes yourself & what are they made from please

Just to add the 2 flocks of sparrows I support have about 10% of their suet & seed filled coconut halves left, I put them up on Thursday ... I have bulk bought them off Ebay 

[TallTrees]

Hi @Anonymous
So pleased you enjoyed the video and photo, they look so cute in the tubes, so funny 😁 The tubes are card board with a paper insert. They could be made but would be difficult and take ages, as I need about 200 tubes. The cardboard outer is reusable , I replace the paper insert when they are used. I buy them from a cj wildlife. Those sparrows are enjoying a feast 🎂🍰🍦🍩🍨😁😀🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

[Martin-O2]

Thanks for sharing the video @TallTrees ! Great to see the bees in action and it looks like a fair few are active already. 

[Marjo]

Awesome, well done with the video @TallTrees ! The bees in the tubes look so cute peeking out like that.

You mentioned you sit under the boxes observing the bees come and go sometimes. I'd be fascinated and scared at the same time, what if they would come at me if I accidentally move in what they might perceive as threatening way, and sting me. Or do these ones sting?

[TallTrees]

Thank you @Martin-O2  the weather changed to chilly but they are flying around

again and more are emerging ~ so I am hoping for a great season of lots of new

happy bees!

[TallTrees]

Hello @Marjo  and thank you ~ no ~ these bees do not have a sting :  actually when I peer close up

they are scared and fly off or go further down the tube ~ sweeties!

When I stand back they fly around me and passed me , they are really concentrating.  They are waiting for the girls to come out of the "release box" at the very top of the tubes so actually they couldn't

care less about me!  The girls come out a week or so after the boys. That is why they are flying

about the boxes : they go off for a bit  and feed up on some nectar and pollen and then come back to 

check if any girls have emerged ~ aren't they just super.

Talking to the post lady yesterday as the boxes are just above the letter box!  She was ok with it I told her they wouldn't sting ~ she was fascinated said Oooh those boxes work!

Glad everyone is understanding and happy too