Recent content by FairyNuf

Indeed, that was the intention of that whole paragraph, to mock myself for my level of concern but to put it in context. I apologise for the weak joke, cf: Overall, can I thank everyone for your help and guidance on this? I'm left a lot more confident that things will be ok if we just leave it.

Ahhh, right. So what did you mean? I just meant when a new queen leaves the colony to start a new one. I thought of it in terms of the new queen taking some of the workers with her, which I associate with bees, but apparently not bumbles. Any more. :) They are very unlikely to use that site...

Thanks for the replies, That's the plan really, although there's more about than I initially anticipated I certainly don't want them harmed. They're a bit close to the back door and we may need to limit the playing in the garden more than we wanted but it's no harm. I think my lack of...

Hi, I'm new here and am looking for advice, I hope that I'm not asking in the wrong place, or asking stupid questions. We've just moved house a couple of weeks ago and have seen some bee activity in the garden, and traced it back to an airbrick near the back door. Yesterday, however, my wife...