[Kate Morgan]

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

[shazzbat]

"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
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big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Aren't there just? We had one chasing the Mrs round the allotment this
afternoon. Made I proper larf it did.

Steve

Kate Morgan wrote:
big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Yes, we'd noticed that, too. Perhaps taking the place of the honey bees
that are dying out??

[Phil Gurr]

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Kate Morgan wrote:
big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Yes, we'd noticed that, too. Perhaps taking the place of the honey bees
that are dying out??

Rather surprisingly, my bees seem to have come through the winter well
(despite the harsh weather up here) and are now working strongly. It's even
more surprising as these are a wild swarm that I took last summer having
lost all my hives to the dreaded 'collapse disorder' two years ago. It would
be nice to think that the bees are making a comeback.

Phil
Northern Highlands of Scotland

[Bob Hobden]

wrote
Kate Morgan wrote:
big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Yes, we'd noticed that, too. Perhaps taking the place of the honey bees
that are dying out??

I too thought that but have noticed that our Camellia tree is covered in
honey bees such that it buzzes.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

[rbel]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:00:01 +0200, Kate Morgan
wrote:

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Marvelous isn't it! More than usual Buff-tailed but only a few
White-tailed so far here in S Devon - all making a bee line for the
Snake's head frits.

--
rbel

[Rusty Hinge[_2_]]

Kate Morgan wrote:

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Yes, thank goodness.

My jostaberries are buzzing with buzzing things going about their buzziness.

--
Rusty

[Rusty Hinge[_2_]]

Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:12:09 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

Kate Morgan wrote:

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)
Yes, thank goodness.

My jostaberries are buzzing with buzzing things going about their buzziness.

bits of Icelandic lava?

Nah, jumbo jets and the like innit.

--
Rusty

[Dave Hill]

On 15 Apr, 10:52, Rusty Hinge
wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:12:09 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

Kate Morgan wrote:

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)
Yes, thank goodness.

My jostaberries are buzzing with buzzing things going about their buzziness.

bits of Icelandic lava?

Nah, jumbo jets and the like innit.

--
Rusty

Quite a few very large Bumble Bees here and this morning, much to my
supprise, a wasp, not a Queen but a worker, normaly when the
Raspberries are in flower we have the queens around then a few weeks
later the workers are around.
Strange.
David Hill

rbel wrote:
big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)
Marvelous isn't it! More than usual Buff-tailed but only a few
White-tailed so far here in S Devon -

I'm impressed you can get them to sit still long enough to take not of the
colour of their tail end!

all making a bee line for the Snake's head frits.

Now that is something I have never been able to grow. :-(
The MiL gave me some in a planter for Christmas a few years ago, but they
never came up, and I've tried replacing them since, and they didn't work
either.

[Rusty Hinge[_2_]]

Dave Hill wrote:
On 15 Apr, 10:52, Rusty Hinge
wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:12:09 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:
Kate Morgan wrote:
big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)
Yes, thank goodness.
My jostaberries are buzzing with buzzing things going about their buzziness.
bits of Icelandic lava?
Nah, jumbo jets and the like innit.

--
Rusty

Quite a few very large Bumble Bees here and this morning, much to my
supprise, a wasp, not a Queen but a worker, normaly when the
Raspberries are in flower we have the queens around then a few weeks
later the workers are around.
Strange.

Probably a queen of one of the smaller species - moped rather than Vespa...

--
Rusty

[Rusty Hinge[_2_]]

Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:52:02 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:12:09 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

Kate Morgan wrote:

big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)
Yes, thank goodness.

My jostaberries are buzzing with buzzing things going about their buzziness.
bits of Icelandic lava?
Nah, jumbo jets and the like innit.

Spring turbine blades popping up in the lawn?

Ah, I wondered about those. I thought they were from the shoehorn seeds
I planted last year.

--
Rusty

[Rusty Hinge[_2_]]

wrote:
rbel wrote:

all making a bee line for the Snake's head frits.

Now that is something I have never been able to grow. :-(
The MiL gave me some in a planter for Christmas a few years ago, but they
never came up, and I've tried replacing them since, and they didn't work
either.

They were probably Antipodean ones, and they haven't grown down far
enough to come up yet.

--
Rusty

[jane song]

On 4ÔÂ15ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç9ʱ03·Ö, Rusty Hinge
wrote:
wrote:
rbel wrote:
all making a bee line for the Snake's head frits.

Now that is something I have never been able to grow. :-(
The MiL gave me some in a planter for Christmas a few years ago, but they
never came up, and I've tried replacing them since, and they didn't work
either.

They were probably Antipodean ones, and they haven't grown down far
enough to come up yet.

--
Rusty

[wafflycat]

"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
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big fat fluffy buzzy bumble bees this year :-)

Well it is the time of year for the bumble bee queens to be searching out
suitable nesting sites for the season