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Showing posts with label Bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bees. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Pesticides in France for members of the public and in public spaces.

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  From January 1, 2019 , only plant protection and other gardening products of natural origin have been available to home gardeners in Franc...
Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Bees killing hornets in France

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I know it is stating the obvious but every year is different in the natural world and no two years can be the same, however this is becomi...
Saturday, 25 July 2020

Chafers and Honeybees in France

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The other day a chap on a French Beekeeping Face book group posted a photo of a beetle trying to get into one of his hives.    His initial...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Bees in a bird box and swarm in a house

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I have come across plenty of honeybee colonies that have set up home in the roofs of houses, and when necessary, have even been known to r...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

France and the banning of neonicotinoid insecticides

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France Becomes The First Country To Ban All Five Pesticides Linked To Bee Deaths. Most of us will have seen this or similarly worded ...
Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Log hive at a French Chateau

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Chateau bees. It’s not unusual to get called out to bee swarms and colonies between the windows and shutters of French houses. It is a...
Sunday, 9 December 2018

Hedgerows and Dry Stone Walls in France

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As soon as we start to take a look at either Hedgerows or Dry stone walls it soon becomes clear that in France as in many parts of the UK ...
Monday, 15 October 2018

Giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis in France

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Up to 25mm in length this huge leafcutter bee is a relatively new arrival in France that is rapidly and literally making itself at hom...
Friday, 28 September 2018

Wax moth and Honeybees in France

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Wax moths of both species Achroia grisella and Galleria mellonella which are   commonly known as Lesser Wax Moth and Greater Wax Moth have...
Saturday, 8 September 2018

Buckwheat and Phacelia late cover crop in France

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8 th September 2018 It’s no exaggeration to say that increasingly the arable lands of France are becoming environmental wastelands ...
Monday, 23 October 2017

Praying Mantis in France - Mantis religiosa

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Although the vast majority of Mantis species have their homes in tropical and sub-tropical climates France plays host to a dozen species mo...