Botanical-Tree Bumble Bee Watch.

Last summer, whilst we were all indoors, a gang of bees moved into my bird box. They came on the Sunday afternoon and stayed for a month. They bumbled into me, spent the day chatting and doing business and getting drunk on the flowers.

The week before they left I couldn’t go into the garden between 5pm and 7pm, due to the bees dating and doing ‘stuffs’ with each other. It was quite high octane at times and I was told not to go out by the way of a queen bee flying into my face. The greenhouse floor was a popular spot for their alone time.

As the bees decided to call it quits in the bird box, I found a lot of them had passed away on the grass. I am a collector so obviously I now have a collection of deceased bees in a case.

I asked for help from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and they said my tree bumbles had, had their life and this was it now. The bees had moved out and new queens had made a new home somewhere else. The ones that had died, had done just that. Died. I was saddened by this news but I am glad that they had some very big parties and dated each other multiple times before they went to sleep.

I very much enjoyed the bees visiting and setting up home in the tree. I missed them and their very loud conversation once they had gone.

Go HERE to learn all about tree bumbles and hopefully you might get some visiting. Just don’t disturb their dating.