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Anyone think the Bees are buzzing this summer?

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  • 22-06-2010 11:17am
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    mike65
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    This current spell of fine weather seems to have given the garden bee population a boost. With the flowers blooming more fully then in the last couple of years the garden is at times litterly buzzing esp around the honeysuckle bushes.
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    magicbastarder
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    herself has a couple of ceanothus trees in her garden, which are in flower at the moment - and there were at least a dozen bees on each tree on saturday evening.


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    fryup
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    not so many honey bees.......but plenty of hover flies and the like


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Bumble Bees in particular are about in much greater numbers than previous years. I thought they may ahve been in trouble after the very severe Winter gone by, but far from it. Isn't Nature wonderful at coping with everything Nature can throw at it?


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    Mothman
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    It may seem logical that hard winter may have been bad, but most species here are resident in some part of northern continental Europe where Winters are a lot colder than what we've just had


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