Sunday, July 27, 2008
Busy Bees
After a Springwatch program a few years ago, we bought a bee home (which we could have made, admittedly). We hadn't seen much active until this year when I noticed inside one of the bamboo tubes making crunching noises. A week or so later I've had a look to see if there have been any changes and the first thing I noticed was a green plug in one of the tubes:
And - after waiting for the bee to buzz off - here's the back (the red asterix is the tube filled in the front view; the orange asterix is near a tube leaking gloop):
Here's our busy worker returned to add more green plaster to one of the tubes not quite filled enough at the back:
And then 45 minutes later the bee is round the front:
And - after waiting for the bee to buzz off - here's the back (the red asterix is the tube filled in the front view; the orange asterix is near a tube leaking gloop):
Here's our busy worker returned to add more green plaster to one of the tubes not quite filled enough at the back:
And then 45 minutes later the bee is round the front:
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