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Common Carder bee

RanunculusRanunculus Posts: 33
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I saw a common carder bee today feasting on our primulas - it's so cute.

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  • flowering roseflowering rose Posts: 1,632

    I bumble bee and hover flies zooming around the garden,the bumble lives at the base of the cherry tree in a hole in the grass.On my water butt i have covered the openings so as the bees do not get trapped inside,I found  a number of dead ones one year so took action .

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159

    today there are solitary bees all over the pulmonarias and their little earth volcanos have appeared in the lawn



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159

    I also have some beige coloured bees but I don't know what they are, any ideas?



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • RanunculusRanunculus Posts: 33

    I now feel that what I saw was a bee fly and not a common carder bee as it had a long proboscis.  Ooops!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159

    i can recognise those ranunculus but i still cant tell my bees apart reliably



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,894

    Our Shady Bank is full of bees busily buzzing around the foxgloves, clematis, aquilegias, roses,echiums and iris - the bees all seem to be coming out of and returning to  holes in the soffits of next door's roof image  There are hundreds of them - every cloud has a silver lining image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • RanunculusRanunculus Posts: 33

    Sorry nutcutlet I am a novice - it was only an article in a gardeners world magazine that led me to believe it was a c.c.bee as it was the only one I saw with a beige bum image

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,116

    Would much rather have bees in my soffits than starlings any day Dove! image

    Saw a hoverfly today - first one I've seen this year. More bees around recently too but no good at identifying them. Love seeing them around. 

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,894

    Strangely enough FG, last summer the neighbour had starlings nesting in his roof - not this year - a sparrowhawk took one off the roof earlier this spring and we thought that explained  it, but perhaps the bees saw them off?


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

     I've had a few bee's in my garden, mainly with white bottoms. There are at least two other species though, will have a closer look at the weekend when I've more time.   

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