Recent content by Nicola123

Thank you - one other is south facing but I do worry they will overheat in summer - but I’ll clean this one out and put on the south facing wall. Should I try to shade them from the summer heat a little?

It was west facing - what’s best place to position please!

Thank you - I was afraid of that. I left it for over a year and you should clean them out to ensure no mites and sand off any rough edges. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at as they look dead but can’t work out why that would be 😟

Yes - the roof section is hinged and it has 3 layers of holes - when you tip back the roof it reveals the top layer of holes under Perspex - the rest you can’t view easily unless you take it apart to clean.

I left my solitary bee house unattended and checked it today to clean it out but I think all the bees inside must be dead - what do you think?

I keep checking and haven’t seen anything come and go from the nests yet!? Hopefully it will be nice at the weekend and I can spend a bit more time checking 🥰

I don’t know too much about wasps but I’ll have to go look at some images now. I do find all creatures beautiful. 🥰

Thank you so much - this is such a friendly and informative forum and it’s good to be in the company of people who appreciate bees as much as I do. I’ve been reading through other posts and never realised there was so much to beekeeping 🥰

A person after my own heart. They’d be welcome of course - but I really really want bees. Before our lavender got old and woody the bees used to sleep on it and on the walls of our house - you could gently touch the bees while they were asleep and they were so beautiful. Wasps will never let you...

Thank you. I’m hoping it’s bees but I’ll have to watch to see - knowing my luck it will be wasps. 😜

oh OK thank you. :)

Thank you for your kind words. May I ask When is the latest you’d expect the bees to leave the bee house as some of mine are still full? Great photo! 😊

and what I hope are ground bee holes discovered this morning - about a dozen of them.

Here’s the garden - not much to look at right now as most plants are small plugs but give it a year and I’m hoping it will be lovely 😊 (I’m new to gardening and all plants were chosen for pollinators).