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Awakening Sleeping BEEuties

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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.  

WP_20190402_13_03_54_Pro (3).jpgWP_20190402_13_49_37_Pro (2).jpgThis is a box with                                                                                 an emerging bee under the release box top.

Wildlife have no respect for photographers!



HAPPINESS IS BEE SHAPED

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I can't say i'm an enthusiast but you've given me a new appreciation for the scary little things

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What a lovely story @TallTrees 

A real BEE happy community. Lovely to hear of so many people looking after our bees. heart

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Aw @AngryOlGuy
Surely this little creature cannot be scary to you😊
This is one having a rest on my sheets hung on washing line this morning, tiny about 10mm
Such a sweetie 💕

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Anything with wings that invades my airspace gets an escort right back out again. I try not to flap & whack, but I can't help it!
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2022

I have just completed cleaning every bee in the tubes.

I estimate about 1000 can't count that many, too busy emptying

tubes and cleaning them.

Here they are in the box I am storing them in until I renovate their

release boxes for Spring this year.

It was not a particularly good year but the bees have done wonders.

Thank you dear bees see you in Spring.

Nesting tubesNesting tubesBee CocoonsBee Cocoons



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TallTrees
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What a good idea @jonsie 🤣

Maybe you could think of 1000 names ? 🤔



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I've heard of "Humdinger"  🙄

a theme here @jonsie  

 

 



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Some great pics of both male and female Red Mason bees here, and capped tubes too:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/sets/72157633278113867/

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