The Wild Bee Handbook: the Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive by Sarah Wyndham Lewis

Author:Sarah Wyndham Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quadrille
Published: 2023-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

SUPPORTING THIS BEE

Supplying queens with pollen as they emerge from their winter hibernation helps nourish them as they gather strength. The colonies they build then need nectar and pollen from a good range of wild and cultivated forage to take them through into early autumn. Like so many other pollinators, these comparatively short-tongued bumblebees enjoy herb garden plantings, including chives, thyme, sage, lavender, borage and marjoram. They are also known to pollinate field beans and oilseed rape crops. Here is a list of some of their other preferred forage:

Trees and bushes: Apple, berberis, cherry, blackthorn, bramble/blackberry, broom, ceanothus/Californian lilac, flowering currant, hebe, laburnum, mahonia, mallow, willow.

Smaller flowers: Asters, bell heathers, bird’s-foot trefoil, bluebell, burdock, busy lizzie, buttercups, clover, comfrey (Symphytum officinale and others), common/field poppy, crocus, dandelion, deadnettle, knapweed, scabious, sedum (stonecrop), simple-flowered dahlias, St. John’s wort, teasels, thistles, tree lupin, vetches, viper’s bugloss, wallflowers.

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