My god, it's full of bees

Every summer my hedge is full of bees. I mean full of bees. Thousands of the buggers. The whole hedge buzzes and seems to shimmy like it’s one giant bee. It’s quite funny watching people leap backwards when the hedge buzzes at them, and it’s nice to see there are some areas unaffected by the bee population collapse but I would really like to know just what they find so appealing in a rather ordinary (to me) hedge.

Here is the hedge (I can’t work out the link to embed it)

The bees were there but I don’t think you can see them in the photo. I didn’t fancy getting too close in case one of them took me for a paparazzi.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Anyone got any suggestions?

There’s a bees nest in your hedge ?

with a name like yours you should be able to smoke ’em out.. 8)

Ivy? Birds, bees, in fact every flying thing loves Ivy!

😆

Set up a boom-box nearby, and play them some Sea Of Bees, perhaps it’ll calm them down! 😀

Looks like a cotoniaster which has tiny flowers which don’t really look like flowers. Is it covered in red berries later in the year?

just returned from watching the tour highlights…

There’s a bees nest in your hedge ?

I wondered that but I don’t think so

with a name like yours you should be able to smoke ’em out..

do you think those smoke blowing things beekeepers have are really over-sized mechanical blow back devices?? 😈

Is it covered in red berries later in the year?

yes

we may have an answer…

I wish I could help but hive got no idea.

😆

We have a cotoneaster bush that is also a bee magnet – must just bee the variety. Definitely no nest in ours, they just love the flowers, which is handy as the bush is near my broad beans and they need pollinating, in case any of the bees are reading this!

Beehave they cant read….

I don’t beelieve it, we’re now going to get countless bee related puns

Oh do stop droning on ernie. 😛

Sorry honey.

<trying to come up with a wheelsize joke.>

Bees love that stuff, we’ve got quite a few plants that are supposed to be good for bees but they ignore most of it and head straight for the hedges.

good thing about cotoniaster is it’s a piece apis to grow

You must bee joking? Hive a mind to report you to the mods. pollenate it when this happens.

thanks for all the answers (even the painful puns). I had considered whether I should take cuttings off the hedge to support bee colonies countrywide but it seems we should just encourage beekeepers to grow cotoniaster close to their hives.

cheers all, this was a great example of the way STW excels at answering random questions

STW excels at answering random questions

I like this too but I don’t like to wax lyrical about it. I supose without it we could just bumble along but it better to comb the hive mind occasionally

andrew, take a bow, that is outstanding.

Have you been drinking?

it’s threads like these that take the sting out of sitting in own your own on a Saturday night

Cheers Peter, pretty good yourself.
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Not been drinking much, just a little of the amber nectar to get me in the mood.
*goes to check fridge for some Waggledance*

How about wearing a beard o’bees? The ladies love it, apparently.