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Bee question - we've been noticing what I assume are bees appear every so often on the same spot holding on to the fabric blind of a window in our living room . It is always there nowhere else. One insect every couple couple of weeks.

To my layman eye some I would think are bees (like the latest arrival discovered this evening, which I snapped a photo of) others look like a bee but are almost completely black.


We very rarely open that particular window - could they be hibernating somewhere indoors?


In case they are bees I try to offer a drop of sugar water and let them out in the morning, but am now just curious where they are coming from...


Any insights from bee experts appreciated!

Colakid, it could be a mason bee , they hatch from a cocoon around the beginning of April and with the warm February we had some could be hatching early, normally very unlikely to sting and they lay their young in cracks or holes in walls, wood or similar


Look them up and see if they are similar to the ones you saw

  • 2 weeks later...
The cherry blossom across ED at the moment is amazing - Whately St is transformed - and it's the best season for Magnolia I can remember - I suspect all down to that wonderful hot spell we had in February. Worth going out to catch it - the cherry blossom will be gone in a week. We could be in Japan (as I was this time last year). Friern and Upland good too, as are sections of Underhill.

Alice,

do you have a pond pump? The spawn may have drifted. Frogs tend to spawn in the shallows, I guess there is most algae for food for the hatchlings close to the surface, but if the spawn has drifted into deeper water it would sink. If so can you move it into shallow water, perhaps anchored around some marginal plants?

I had two lots of frogs spawn in my little pond quite early - maybe 2 weeks ago. One lot seemed not to have been fertilized properly, I couldn't see any tiny black dots in it and it has now disappeared. In the other lot, the dots have become lines and I hope will soon start wriggling.

Sue Wrote:

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> tarafitness Wrote:

>

> > Boo to all the people deliberately ignoring the

> > 'please don't feed me bread' signs :(

>

>

> Whilst that annoys me greatly as well, to be fair,

> maybe they are not "deliberately ignoring" the

> signs?

>

> Maybe they just haven't seen or read them?


They were stood right next to the signs :D

tarafitness Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> -----

> > tarafitness Wrote:

> >

> > > Boo to all the people deliberately ignoring

> the

> > > 'please don't feed me bread' signs :(

> >

> >

> > Whilst that annoys me greatly as well, to be

> fair,

> > maybe they are not "deliberately ignoring" the

> > signs?

> >

> > Maybe they just haven't seen or read them?

>

> They were stood right next to the signs :D



I passed by there yesterday and only saw one sign?


I think if I had seen anybody feeding ducks bread next to it I might have had a polite word with them :)

nxjen Wrote:

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> Spotted a clutch of 7 newly hatched coot chicks on

> the lake at Peckham Rye Park this morning



If it's the same coot family, I could only see two with their parents yesterday :(


Hope the heron hasn't had the rest (haven't seen any herons lately).

nxjen Wrote:

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> Very sad to learn that. Nature can be a real

> b*stard sometimes.



On the other hand, nature seems to arrange things so that enough are born that some will hopefully be left.


If all the tadpoles which hatched became mature frogs, we would be knee deep in frogs!

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