I have a nice bee's nest / hive? in my garden, it's in a hole in the ground. The trouble is i keep finding them dying, they seem dis-orientated and slow and then they die 🙁

I've noticed a lot of ants hanging around the top of the hole, i've thought of putting ant powder down but i'm worried about harming the bee's?

Any suggestions?

call your local bee keeper?

Let nature take care of it's self

T##t them with a slipper.

Isn't there some virus that is effecting honeybees, and they are declining in numbers?

Agree with getting advice from a beekeeper, but doubt they'd want to take any bees for fear of infecting their hives.

I'd assume the ants are just feasting on the unfortunate bees.

As an asside, can you still buy those kits that provide a habitat for the threatened mason bees?
They were like a large group of long thin card tubes of the kind of size the mason likes to live in if i recall?

Hi

You need to leave them alone. Even though it's still summer for us, bees are starting to get ready for winter about now as their food supply (nectar) has all but dried up which means their numbers will dramatically drop off.

Steve

Take them to the hosbeetal. In an ambeelance. Get a doctor t perform surgerbee on them. etc

I'll just leave them bee then….

Another problem solved by the STW hive mind.

Will no-one think of the apostrobees?

Pot? Kettle?

Now fill them both with boiling water and tip down hole. Ant problem solved and a rich reserve of beautiful bee soup to drill for.

Behave you lot.

takisawa2 – Member
Beehive you lot.

Fixed it for you.

On very nice days they often work themselves to death gathering pollen

Ourmaninthenorth – see what you did there…

You could put out a saucer of sugar solution for them – no this isn't a wind up. They sometimes need an extra bit of help with feeding, especially if there are few flowering plants around.

http://www.beverleybeekeepers.co.uk/test/page8/page40/page62/page62.html

if they live in a hole in the ground they are very unlikely to be honey bee's. If they were honey bee's there'd be thousands of em

If they are in a hole in the ground they're not honey bees but proabably bumble bees of which there are 100+ types. Leave them alone, there's not much you can do for them.

Chris (three of our collonies started laying last week) beekeeper.

Fairly sure there were 20ish types of bumble bee in the UK a number of which are extinct now, best thing to do is plant some good nectar source flowers.