Bumble Bees Death Spiral

Hillian1 · Aug 20, 2013

I have noticed recently that Bumble Bees are dying at an alarming rate, outside my office there are at least 10 dead Bees in the small smoking area/patio.

Is this normal for this time of year or is there something more sinister at work.

PWA · Aug 20, 2013

Bees rule.

glasfryn · Aug 20, 2013

plenty down here in Eastbourne blooming great things to
your dead ones could be drones?

StonehamPark · Aug 20, 2013

Hillian1 said:
I have noticed recently that Bumble Bees are dying at an alarming rate, outside my office there are at least 10 dead Bees in the small smoking area/patio.

Is this normal for this time of year or is there something more sinister at work.

Carbon Monoxide poisoning?

Stinkers Bridge · Aug 20, 2013

It could well be sinister forces at work.. I suspect there is a sting in the tail of this story.

LamieRobertson · Aug 20, 2013

loads all over my lavender hedge

Eksman · Aug 20, 2013

Good death to them all. Bees and wasps scare the shit out of me

Sam Ovett · Aug 20, 2013

Without bees we couldn't exist. Sad news

sydney · Aug 20, 2013

bees are ace......but they shouldn't smoke...!

Cold Gettin Dumb · Aug 20, 2013

Loads of bumbles on our patch

Papa Lazarou · Aug 20, 2013

First it was the honey bees, now it's the bumbles. Where will it end?

Barrel of Fun · Aug 20, 2013

There does seem to be an alarming lack of bees, wasps, those hover ones. I remember being pestered by them all summer not so long ago.

FamilyGuy · Aug 20, 2013

I've always been led to believe that like many insects, Bumble Bees have a short and active life and so when you see a "dead Bee" then it has simply served its purpose and worked itself to death?

Hillian1 · Aug 20, 2013

FamilyGuy said:
I've always been led to believe that like many insects, Bumble Bees have a short and active life and so when you see a "dead Bee" then it has simply served its purpose and worked itself to death?

Shit load of working going on here then, and not much of it done by me.

Papa Lazarou · Aug 20, 2013

Some info here:

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk...n_to_Mother_Nature_not_heatwave__say_experts/

MattBackHome · Aug 20, 2013

Loads of lovely BEES up on my plot, aided by lots of purple flowers about.

Went for a cream tea at Littlington last weekend and couldn't BELIEVE thenumber of wasps.

Papa Lazarou · Aug 20, 2013

FamilyGuy said:
I've always been led to believe that like many insects, Bumble Bees have a short and active life and so when you see a "dead Bee" then it has simply served its purpose and worked itself to death?

As per the link I just posted, it appears you are pretty much correct.

Thunder Bolt · Aug 20, 2013

This might be a clue?

However, towards the end of summer or early autumn, again, new queens emerge from the colony she has founded. The rest of the colony, however, including the workers and the original queen, will not survive.

http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/how-long-do-bees-live.html#Bumb

London Irish · Aug 20, 2013

Time did a cover on it - you need a sub to read entire article though

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2149141,00.html?pcd=pw-edit

Hillian1 · Aug 20, 2013

Very sad, there is a Red Tail Bumble Bee nest under the hedge outside our office too and that seems to have gone now.

Many a lunch hour spent watching the industrious little insects come and go.

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