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Bee in a tree!
17 December 2011 17:55A few weeks ago, the leaves fell off the trees on the way to work. I noticed on the way in one morning that a guy ahead of me was staring fixedly at the top of one of the trees. I saw what looked like an old yellow towel snarled in the branches.
When I got closer, I realised it wasn't an old towel - it was a nest of wild honeybees! ("Wild" meaning probably a swarm from a managed hive that set up shop in that tree earlier in summer.)
( Bee pics! )
Since I took these pictures, the temperature has dropped somewhat and we've had some fairly high winds, so there are not as many outside bees any more. But I've still seen one or two crawling across the surface, so I assume the queen's still there!
That's more or less all for now. I STILL owe LJ pics, writeups and allsorts, but I am lazy, busy and disorganised, so...
Have been super-altruistic this year and managed to locate Christmas presents for both brother and dad (I suck at Xmas pressies, and am not really that interested in them normally, so mostly just give the whole thing a miss, but for some reason this year I felt the urge to get people stuff).
One of my favourite plants has decided to kick the bucket. (It's an aloe, used to be pretty tough actually, survived all sorts of abuse, but it's just decided to go rotten at the base and there doesn't seem to be much to be done for it.) So will probably buy myself a new plant in the new year. Suggestions welcome - has to be almost impossible to kill, shade-tolerant and cheap! (Yes, I already have multiple spider plants. And have somehow managed to keep a sundew alive and relatively healthy for over a year now.)
When I got closer, I realised it wasn't an old towel - it was a nest of wild honeybees! ("Wild" meaning probably a swarm from a managed hive that set up shop in that tree earlier in summer.)
( Bee pics! )
Since I took these pictures, the temperature has dropped somewhat and we've had some fairly high winds, so there are not as many outside bees any more. But I've still seen one or two crawling across the surface, so I assume the queen's still there!
That's more or less all for now. I STILL owe LJ pics, writeups and allsorts, but I am lazy, busy and disorganised, so...
Have been super-altruistic this year and managed to locate Christmas presents for both brother and dad (I suck at Xmas pressies, and am not really that interested in them normally, so mostly just give the whole thing a miss, but for some reason this year I felt the urge to get people stuff).
One of my favourite plants has decided to kick the bucket. (It's an aloe, used to be pretty tough actually, survived all sorts of abuse, but it's just decided to go rotten at the base and there doesn't seem to be much to be done for it.) So will probably buy myself a new plant in the new year. Suggestions welcome - has to be almost impossible to kill, shade-tolerant and cheap! (Yes, I already have multiple spider plants. And have somehow managed to keep a sundew alive and relatively healthy for over a year now.)
