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Talkback: How to make a bee hotel

heap. You can also buy a box of live bumblebees for the home garden now called a Beepol box. To suggest using Japanese knotweed for bee hotels is very risky and ill advised. Cutting knotweed canes in the summer while they're still growing is likely by rogerdennis

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18/05/2012 19:10:42

by weeddr

Wildlife gardening...hopes for the future

I sincerely hope the current trend in the promotion of wildlife-friendly gardening continues apace. I am 50; I have gardened in this vein since first seeing Chris Baines' TV programme "Blue Tits And Bumblebees : The Making of a Wildlife Garden by BugFriendlyGardener

11/10/2012 10:01:55

by BugFriendlyGardener

Bee spotting

and neabours porch ive asked before for someone to take them away but nobody is interested Seen a few pollinators out, they must be warming up I saw quite a few bees in my garden a couple of days ago, bumblebees and a few honey bees, but I live in SW France by BobTheGardener

04/04/2013 00:18:33

by Mummy Muddy Paws

Talkback: Sowing broad beans

few are forming pods. Any idea? Is it lack of bees for pollentation? with reference to James Atkins, I have the same problem and it is caused by bumblebees drilling into the back of the flower robbing the nectar rather than going into the front. Has by BillinghamPlottter

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28/11/2011 18:30:55

by Jesspurrr

Talkback: Bee roads

to Novice JoanUnlike wasps and honeybees, bumblebees are very docile nesters. For one thing there are far fewer of them in the small untidy nest, probably only a couple of hundred at the height of the season, where wasps may have 10 – 12,000 and honeybees up by hereisabee

28/11/2011 18:38:35

by RachelL

Talkback: Bees at Gardeners' World Live

/05/27/bumblebees-in-the-compost-bin/, his blog about it might help put your mind at rest. Because of the shortage of honey bees, due to disease etc. I make it a firm policy to plant my garden with as many bee and insect attracting flowers as possible. They have by Patricia bowers

28/11/2011 18:38:52

by bunnysgarden

Talkback: Hornets

insects were likely to do to him! This year the bird box was occupied by Tree Bumblebees, but the hornets are still regular, welcome visitors to the garden. That is so typical of a ot of the human race. If you do not understand it,or know about it.Kill it by lee

28/11/2011 18:44:19

by Mike

Talkback: Cup and saucer vine

's still flowering and bumblebees are still feeding on it now in December in London. It's full of seed pods too but I'm not sure I want anymore of it. It grew so vigorously this summer, I'm afraid it might take over the whole garden and eventually the world by Betty of Batford Herts

28/11/2011 18:30:21

by judith

Talkback: Bug hunt at Gardeners' World Live

through the lens. The ladybirds would have been quite OK for several hours, but a bumblebee would not have been very happy at all. I have recently found lots of small black beetles on my rosemary hedge. Is there a pesticide I can use to get rid of them by budding entomologist

28/11/2011 18:31:53

by Richard Jones - reply to Gnomefan

Talkback: Draining ponds

. They are probably bumblebees. This page might help you identify them. They will only be there until late-summer, maybe into autumn but they definitely won't last the winter. It is unlikely that they would return next year, but they might do. Do you normally have by Dragonfly

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28/11/2011 18:40:34

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