Bees bringing in.....flowers?!

[Sutty]

I looked at the entrance to one hive today and spotted a bee with a flower, or really a floret, attached to it's pollen basket - possibly from elderflower. Sadly I couldn't get my phone out before it had gone in!
Anyone else seen them take in strange objects?

 

[blackcloud]

I had one lot take out a dummy board and lean it against the stand.
Found it the following inspection.
Couldn't have been anyone else.

 

[Garry R]

I looked at the entrance to one hive today and spotted a bee with a flower, or really a floret, attached to it's pollen basket - possibly from elderflower. Sadly I couldn't get my phone out before it had gone in!
Anyone else seen them take in strange objects?

Maybe a romantic gesture from an admiring drone.................

 

[Moobee]

I had one lot take out a dummy board and lean it against the stand.
Found it the following inspection.
Couldn't have been anyone else.

That explains the queen excluder I found by one of my hives!

 

[Swarm]

Evening Primrose pollen, perhaps?

 

[Garry R]

My Dad in his latter years was convinced that the borrowers visited his workshop in the evenings, played with his tools and left them in a slightly different place from where they found them causing you to waste hours of time looking for them, It's obviously hereditary as it is happening to me now. When you do find them you realise it is true as they are somewhere you would never leave them without outside interference AND they are ALWAYS in the last place you look.

 

[Erichalfbee]

My Dad in his latter years was convinced that the borrowers visited his workshop in the evenings, played with his tools and left them in a slightly different place

I have been away for four days. Before we left we picked strawberries but left enough for another picking (I'm positive) when we returned. Today...not a singe strawberry. They are in a cage so the birds haven't got them.

 

[Sutty]

I have been away for four days. Before we left we picked strawberries but left enough for another picking (I'm positive) when we returned. Today...not a singe strawberry. They are in a cage so the birds haven't got them.

Neighbours or slugs?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes...I'll get in there tomorrow after the bees. It's been raining...I'd forgotten about slugs

 

[Garry R]

Yes...I'll get in there tomorrow after the bees. It's been raining...I'd forgotten about slugs

Likely too late to deal with the slugs - they'll have made a run for it.........

 

[Sutty]

Evening Primrose pollen, perhaps?

I don't understand this!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Likely too late to deal with the slugs - they'll have made a run for it.........

Yes, I know. I meant just to see what's what
They were coming to an end anyway and we have had a really good crop from them

 

[Erichalfbee]

I don't understand this!

Evening primrose pollen is stringy...perhaps that's what was meant

 

[Ian123]

Yes...I'll get in there tomorrow after the bees. It's been raining...I'd forgotten about slugs

Rats or mice.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Mice. Just found little nests of soggy strawberries in the middle of some of the plants.