sean
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Way cool (Bumble Bee)There's a little hole down by the side of one of our raised beds which I assumed was a mouse hole. (May still be for all I know.) Just watched a bumble bee go into it.  Do they share with mice?
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jocorless
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They quite often will take over old mouse holes whether they would share with a mouse in residence is a different matter - I suspect not cos it would probably eat the stores and lavae in the nest
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Pilsbury
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Bumble bees are solatairy and live in holes or cracks so chances are its just the bumble bee living in their.
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jocorless
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| Pilsbury wrote: | | Bumble bees are solatairy and live in holes or cracks so chances are its just the bumble bee living in their. |
They aren't solitary - they live in colonies just like Honey bee's except they are much smaller - only the queen and probably about 50 workers and drones - the workers and drones die off at the end of summer and only the queens over winter - that's why at the beginning of spring you see the big Queens about
Solitary bee's are Mason, Wood Carder or Mining Bee's
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Pilsbury
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thanks for that, I thought bumbles were as well cos they sell the bumble bee homes that are only big enough for 1.
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