Comments on: The Importance of Bees http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees Food - Photography & More Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-21397 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:04:42 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-21397 little bear, Welcome to the site and thank you for your comment, glad to hear that you are doing your bit for your local wildlife. Keep it up, they need people like you. Many thanks Miles little bear,
Welcome to the site and thank you for your comment, glad to hear that you are doing your bit for your local wildlife. Keep it up, they need people like you.
Many thanks
Miles

]]> by: little bear http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-21380 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:12:39 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-21380 I have a wildlife friendly garden;rescue bumble bees with a drop of honey water when they drop exhausted on my lawn. I am going over to a white clover lawn at the front edged with wild grasses,where a lot of voles & frogs hang out. My neighbour is frightened of bees & poisoned the mining bees that gathered on their lawn, to my fury. I think he used a poison for wasps;but he has been very cagey about it;he knows I love wildlife! Keep up with the bee friendly gardens. The bumbles come out in milder winter weather for the nectar in the winter flowering heathers. little bear. I have a wildlife friendly garden;rescue bumble bees with a drop of honey water when they drop exhausted on my lawn. I am going over to a white clover lawn at the front edged with wild grasses,where a lot of voles & frogs hang out. My neighbour is frightened of bees & poisoned the mining bees that gathered on their lawn, to my fury.
I think he used a poison for wasps;but he has been very cagey about it;he knows I love wildlife! Keep up with the bee friendly gardens. The bumbles come out in milder winter weather for the nectar in the winter flowering heathers.
little bear.

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-18291 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:22:20 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-18291 Anne, Well that's good news indeed, you set a fine example to others with your bee friendly garden. Miles Anne,
Well that’s good news indeed, you set a fine example to others with your bee friendly garden.

Miles

]]> by: Anne http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-18286 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:47:32 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-18286 Miles, I am very happy to report that a great number of bees are currently visiting my garden. I took a photo of my hypericum bush full of yellow flowers but the bees seem to disappear in it. I would need a wonderful Canon camera like yours to make them stand out. The bees are also in my hebe bushes, honeysuckle and fuchsias. The busy bees have not bothered me at all in the garden. They are concentrating where to buzz off to next. It is a joy to see them all. Anne Miles,
I am very happy to report that a great number of bees are currently visiting my garden. I took a photo of my hypericum bush full of yellow flowers but the bees seem to disappear in it. I would need a wonderful Canon camera like yours to make them stand out.
The bees are also in my hebe bushes, honeysuckle and fuchsias.
The busy bees have not bothered me at all in the garden. They are concentrating where to buzz off to next. It is a joy to see them all.
Anne

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17229 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:41:38 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17229 Anne, Welcome back! A great comment but I have to draw the line at clover. I find it a real menace and am constantly having to pull it out of my lawns. As a way of making up for it I make sure I grow plenty of other 'bee friendly' plants in the garden. Miles Anne,
Welcome back! A great comment but I have to draw the line at clover. I find it a real menace and am constantly having to pull it out of my lawns. As a way of making up for it I make sure I grow plenty of other ‘bee friendly’ plants in the garden.

Miles

]]> by: Anne http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17224 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:31:48 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17224 Miles, An outstanding photograph and a very topical subject. Having just returned from Germany, I paid my usual visit to a beekeeper friend to replenish my stock of honey. He showed me several boxes of bees that were about to be sent off to various parts of Europe where they would arrive within 24 hours. These boxes contained one queen bee and the workers together with sufficient nutrition for the journey. They were being sent to beekeepers who had lost some of their stock or to increase them. He has had no problems so far but feels fortunate to live in an area of organic farming. A pesticide that had been identified in Germany as a beekiller, was banned some time ago. I applaud your call for doing our bit to support the bees. How about a very simple way? Let clover grow in your lawns. The lawn where we stayed was covered in white clover and the bees were there from morning till dusk, not harming anyone. Such a joy! Anne Miles,
An outstanding photograph and a very topical subject. Having just returned from Germany, I paid my usual visit to a beekeeper friend to replenish my stock of honey. He showed me several boxes of bees that were about to be sent off to various parts of Europe where they would arrive within 24 hours. These boxes contained one queen bee and the workers together with sufficient nutrition for the journey. They were being sent to beekeepers who had lost some of their stock or to increase them. He has had no problems so far but feels fortunate to live in an area of organic farming.
A pesticide that had been identified in Germany as a beekiller, was banned some time ago.
I applaud your call for doing our bit to support the bees. How about a very simple way? Let clover grow in your lawns. The lawn where we stayed was covered in white clover and the bees were there from morning till dusk, not harming anyone. Such a joy!
Anne

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17222 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:40:46 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17222 Cid, A great comment, there is something special about keeping bees I think, something quite noble. I am quite sure we humans are having a very big part to play in the demise of the bee population, yet another legacy to be proud of. Miles Cid,
A great comment, there is something special about keeping bees I think, something quite noble.
I am quite sure we humans are having a very big part to play in the demise of the bee population, yet another legacy to be proud of.

Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17221 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:38:56 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17221 Rod, Thanks for that, didn't know that either. Lets hope the kiwi variety stays around this time. Miles Rod,
Thanks for that, didn’t know that either.
Lets hope the kiwi variety stays around this time.

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17207 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:32:15 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17207 Miles, That's a superb shot of a bumble at his most handsome.... you must be having a great time with your new camera. Now you mention it, I've never been stung by either a bee or a wasp. I find them in the house all the time and carefully pop them outside with a jar. Wish I had the time and commitment necessary to keep a hive... it must be a fantastic hobby as well as an aid to pollination. I use beeswax in handcream recipes and understand that honey and propolis are both soothing and healing.... in fact everything from a bee is useful. I've been told that our supply from Lincolnshire bees is poor this year... does anyone know why? The last tv programme I saw suggested that certain pesticides were killing bees globally rather than disease... surely MAFF must be aware and will act on this. Cid Miles,

That’s a superb shot of a bumble at his most handsome…. you must be having a great time with your new camera.

Now you mention it, I’ve never been stung by either a bee or a wasp. I find them in the house all the time and carefully pop them outside with a jar. Wish I had the time and commitment necessary to keep a hive… it must be a fantastic hobby as well as an aid to pollination. I use beeswax in handcream recipes and understand that honey and propolis are both soothing and healing…. in fact everything from a bee is useful. I’ve been told that our supply from Lincolnshire bees is poor this year… does anyone know why? The last tv programme I saw suggested that certain pesticides were killing bees globally rather than disease… surely MAFF must be aware and will act on this.

Cid

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17200 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:45:44 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-importance-of-bees#comment-17200 Miles, i have half a notion bumble bees once died out in England and we reintroduced them from another country. Couldn't find the info on it but we are introducing one from New Zealand which became extinct here in the 1980s. Cheers Rod Miles,
i have half a notion bumble bees once died out in England and we reintroduced them from another country.

Couldn’t find the info on it but we are introducing one from New Zealand which became extinct here in the 1980s.
Cheers
Rod

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