Post categories: Springwatch, bees
| 13:28 UK time, Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Springwatch presenter Chris Packham talks about their importance to our countryside and the role they play as a food source for many pollinating insects, including the UK's struggling bee population.
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Comment number 1.
At 13:04 16th Jun 2010, joy wrote:I am incredibly lucky to be surrounded by wildflower meadows. My favourite one is in Tenby and owned by a friend who refuses to allow any chemicals or harvesting to go on until the plants have seeded. I can go to his field and take photo after photo of so many wildflowers in a small area. Also lizards, grasshoppers, rabbits a myriad of bird and insect and butterfly life. Check out my flickr tags 'Phils field' you will find pictures https://www.flickr.com/photos/joysaphine/tags/philsfield/ . Also check out the tags for Tenby for some more from this field - and you can find it on the map as it is geo-tagged.
In Wales we are incredibly lucky to have so many wildflower meadows and areas. I wouldnt change it.
Also - although I live in such a rural area with wildflower meadows all around me - I have in my garden a vast array of bee friendly plants - at the moment they seem to be mainly heading for the Sage flowers, the scented stocks, the Weigelia blossoms and the lavender. Although they are going for the others - these are the main ones for them at the moment with the sage flowers being constantly buzzing with bees.
I do occasionally see bee with what looks like mites on them and this bothers me. Is this the mite that is killing them?
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Comment number 2.
At 13:08 16th Jun 2010, joy wrote:After listening to this video - We have had an amazing amount of ladies smock this year - masses of orchids and I know areas close by that are covered in ragged robin. Also slightly more boggy areas that were full of marsh marigolds and yellow flag.
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At 13:25 16th Jun 2010, joy wrote:https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=25530030%40N02&q=cuckooflower&m=text
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joysaphine/3531074176/
https://www.flickr.com/search/
w=25530030%40N02&q=cardamine+pratensis&m=text
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=25530030%40N02&q=ragged+robin&m=text
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=25530030%40N02&q=wildflower&m=text
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