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We have meandered through bee related events since Easter, tracking the seasonal forage and varied diet of honey bees and which forage is shared with bumble bees, other solitary bees, hover flies and other pollinators; all making the continuous presence of diverse seasonal food sources (forage) very important for bees, […]
So over the weeks of this season we have looked at forage for bees and pollinating insects, the development of the honey bee colony from around 10,000 bees that overwinter in a hive by consuming the stores of pollen and honey set up during the previous summer; to now as […]
June is sometimes a month of some dearth for bees between the main forage times of fruit trees and summer flowers. This month so far bees have been foraging on early blackberry, more cotoneaster, and clover is just starting and various garden flowers, including my tomatoes. In St Mary’s Towyn […]
Due to Storms on Saturday 8th June Matt will now undertake the walk on Sunday 9th June. He will start from Rhyl Lifeboat station at 8am. Matt Smith is passionate about the service offered by the lifeboat services. Last year he was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour (acoustic neuroma) […]
If there are bees and pollinating insects in your garden they will find Cotoneaster if you have one. The photos taken in my garden early May 2019 are a few minutes snapshot of how attractive this plant is to bees and other insects during the period of spring flowering after […]
After some changes in her life Marie Reade needed some friends and so she established Friend Zone (North Wales) on Facebook. It would appear that she was not alone and within 5 weeks the group has over 1000 members. Marie spoke to Sound Radio about why she set up the […]
Rhuddfest organiser Pete Kenway called into the Big Al Breakfast Show on Sound Radio Wales to talk about this weekends Rhuddfest in Rhuddlan. You can listen to the whole interview again above if you missed it. Don’t forget Sound Radio Wales will be LIVE from Rhuddfest this weekend.
