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Dead bees
I was asked this on another forum today.
For a good few years, I have grown lavender in my south facing front patch, purely to feed to bees. Every year round about now, we trim it back into shape after flowering, and there are so many dead bees on the ground. I hope it's nothing we are doing ? Any ideas? Taffy |
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Dead bees
"david" wrote in message ... I was asked this on another forum today. For a good few years, I have grown lavender in my south facing front patch, purely to feed to bees. Every year round about now, we trim it back into shape after flowering, and there are so many dead bees on the ground. I hope it's nothing we are doing ? Any ideas? Are they bumblebees or honey bees? If they are bumblebees I can't really give an explanation, but if they are honey bees then this is quite normal. In the summer, the average number of bees in a colony is around 60,000 and the worker bee lives for around 6 weeks. Therefore the normal death rate will be around 10,000 per week. If bees from more than one colony are visiting your lavender then the number of dead bees will be multiplied. If only 1% of the bees die on your lavender - then that is still quite a number of dead bees per week. Ardmhor |
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