7daysinaweek Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Hi all have a large Budleia in the garden, usually swamped with bees and butterflies but very small amount of bees and have not seen any butterflies, is it too early? atb 7diaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 In this part of the world it has been a very bad year for both. There are some bees on the verbena as I write and a couple of small brown butterflies on the scabious but that is it. Things do not look well for the second broods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Cheers jd, yes have seen very little bees and no butterflies, usually get loads of peacocks and red admirals, wonderful things they are. The palm thingy in the fore picture flowered again this year, seems to be about every four - five years, huge fronds of great scented flowers, bees and flies love it. Many thanks. atb 7diaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 They both have things called wings that stick out one ether side of there back what they do is make them go up and down very fast and it makes them take of and fly in the air people and dogs do not usually have these wing things so find it much harder to get of the ground. :whistling: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Our budleia aren't in flower yet, normally around august when we get them in the garden, still seeing plenty out and about around the countryside especially on brambles. Got loads of ladybirds and larve tho this year which is good for my fruit bushes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cragman Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Too early Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 In my part of the country north wilts we have had lots of bees not to many butterflies but one or two I find that both bees and butterflies seem to be attracted to the colour move I do not no why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 (edited) They both have things called wings that stick out one ether side of there back what they do is make them go up and down very fast and it makes them take of and fly in the air people and dogs do not usually have these wing things so find it much harder to get of the ground. :whistling: AND don't be silly. There are no palm trees in Liverpool. It's far too North. It's almost up in the attic circle. I suspect that either you have been drinking heavy alcohol, Glue sniffing or they are plastic trees. The other week I went to a place that had lavender in border beds and there were literaly hundreds of butterflies on the plants. Edited July 6, 2017 by fortune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Plenty of bees oop north but very little butterfly activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted July 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Cheers for the replies chaps, keep a watch out! atb 7diaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 I see time and time again assorted blue plastic 'vessels' that are left out on farms attracting and drowning bees, this morning it was old mineral lick buckets that had collected in a field corner each with an assortment of dead bees floating in the accumulated rain water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandspider Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Lots of butterflies round me - some I've not seen before. Not seen many bees yet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB1 Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 AND don't be silly. There are no palm trees in Liverpool. It's far too North. It's almost up in the' attic circle'. I suspect that either you have been drinking heavy alcohol, Glue sniffing or they are plastic trees. The other week I went to a place that had lavender in border beds and there were literaly hundreds of butterflies on the plants. Where's that then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Happy to say four or five different butterflies in the garden today and plenty of different bees about ☺ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_seagrave Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 Also, consider that in order to see lots of butterflies, you need to provide food and habitation for the caterpillars. British wildflowers and wild native vegetation is scarcer and scarcer, and the use of pesticides has got to be a factor. LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 Never seen so many Red Admirals here in South Lincolnshire. It's amazing how Budleia attracts them. Lots of ladybirds too earlier on. Don't know where they get the aphids from as we have no roses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 hello, there are a group of bee keepers on the farm and must be 15 plus hives, when they had an informal showing i tagged along and very interesting to see, even some younger people intersted which is good, but they said 30% down on bee numbers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yod dropper Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 Butterflies have only started showing the last couple of weeks but numbers are down on last year. Masses of bees, they couldn't get enough of the cotoneasters, 'infestation' would be an appropriate description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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