Bees swarming out of the ground.

Just been up to Mrs Zip’s mum’s house and bees are swarming out of her flower beds.
She is very allergic to bee stings.
Is this like flying ant day and they are buggering off ,or is this their new home?

Those look like what we have, ivy mining bees.

They’re completely harmless, don’t sting (females have a sting but rarely use it and it’s like a nettle sting, if they can penetrate the skin, which they have trouble doing). You can mow the lawn over them and they don’t care. My young nephew will happily sit watching them from 1ft away with no issues.

The Intriguing Ivy Mining Bee

We have a colony of thousands on our south facing, sandy soil front lawn.

think they might be ‘miner bees’. We have them in the garden too. They don’t generally sting and are busy pollinating her plants 🙂

Petrol. It’s the only way….

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Mining bees are great. Lots of pollination going on + little holes in the lawn to help aerate. All good. We have them too.

We have those. Lovely little things. Not even slightly aggressive IME

We get a few of them in the lawn too. Like others have said they’re really chilled out, the cat catches them without being stung and they ignore me when I’m mowing the lawn or otherwise interfering nearby.

Phew, not zombees then?

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They do look like ivy bees, which makes sense given the time of year. As mentioned, there’s no real sting to speak of, certainly compared to a honeybee.

She is very allergic to bee stings

Presumably she keeps an EpiPen to hand? Still lots of honeybees & wasps around due to the warm weather.

How deep do you need to dig before you get to the honey mines?

What do they do with the ivy once they’ve mined it?

Mostly they’re fine but if they delve too greedily and too deep they might awake a beelrog

Chinese bees. Finally made it through.

What do they do with the ivy once they’ve mined it?

Sit back and wait for the wasps.