I absolutely love bumblebees. Whenever I see one I can't keep my eyes off of it. They're so adorable and just gently fly around and land on flowers. Bees are awesome 💜
I just love that you built your shed this way. Save the bees! I am very allergic but I still want them to be safe & seeing what you did there inspires me to do the same.
I'VE JUST NOTICED A BUMBLEBEE NEST IN THE EVES OF MY HOUSE AND CONSIDER IT A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE SUCH LOVELY GUESTS. IT'S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT NATURE IS STILL IN RHYTHM AND WOKING HARD.
@@Mike-01234 Yeah but only if you piss them off. I have only got stung once by a bumblebee but that was my fault. Wasps on the other hand attack you for no reason.
@@arunicahom-choudhury1641 I've pet bumblebees when there on a flower and never got stung by a bee only by a wasp edit and the flower that I petted them on 😂 because it's a bull thistle
Love this so much. I have a bumblebee colony under my porch and I was really wanting to see it so I tried an endoscope but a bee noticed and it confronted me 😂
I love the way they'll move in anywhere that is suitable. Near us, they've taken over an old tractor. I love watching and filming them go about their daily business.
If you ever get to see a bumblebee in your yard, watch them collect pollen. When they have enough, you’ll see them fly high and far away, and that’s most likely to their nest.
Thanks so much for this great vid! Every year we have bumble bees nesting in the walls of our house and I've been longing to know what they're up to. This year they are under living room floor, droning away and sounding so mysteriously busy. Fabulous creatures. Big smile, Tish 🌺
I only just thought. They must have pretty amazing eyes. Their nests are made in such dark places! And they also have to be able to see well in the light. Or perhaps they make up for it with other senses, in the dark.
@@MGZero that's amazing! Keep learning new things about my favourite creatures. :D I knew they can't see red, and that's why red light isn't bothersome to them, but I didn't know they can see UV.
What a kind man you are doing that for our little "sky pandas" I adore them. I had them living under my outside stairs one summer, I just let them be. They never bothered with us or the dogs walking by them all day long.
This made my day! Thank you so much. Always wondered if bumblebees lived together or were solo creatures. When I was a child I use to spot individual ones fly inside flower heads, then would (very) gently stroke their furry backs with 1 finger. They didn't mind, and just got on with collecting pollen.
That is amazing Dave. I have just seen a lot of bumblebees going in and out of the roof space above our front porch. After reading that these amazing little creatures do not damage your house I will just let them go about their business. Thanks for the video Dave.
Just found this video. Thank you for this! What a great idea. I love the way your not afraid to make space for the pollinators that need Places to nest! How cool!
I find it absolutely hilarious how the honeybee makes a perfectly-symmetrical, evenly spaced hive of identical hexagons that tesselate perfectly with no wasted space, while the bumblebee has this horrendous-looking mess of a hive that looks so crudely cobbled together like some sort of art project crammed on the due date. There are busy bees, and there are busy bees who try their hardest but simply have no artistic talent whatsoever 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
ELF MAN 24 I always ask people to put up with them, however, they do have the potential to sting, which to some people can be life threatening in extreme circumstances.......
ELF MAN 24 I had to when they were living in my campervan, unfortunately couldn't remove the nest without breaking it as they were stuck in a area that would have involved using an angle grinder and writing off the van to get them out in one piece.
@@anesidorapandora9646 Try and locate the whole next, including the Queen and workers, find a nice spot for them, same the other workers will find them as the Queen and other workers will send out pheremone signals do it can be located...
@@anesidorapandora9646 if you can wait, bumblebee nests don't last long at all. By the end of the year they are all gone; only the queens last the full year and they hibernate before starting a new nest when it gets warmer. The timing varies according to species of bumble, but there are still definite limits. They don't construct their own nests - they exclusively take over the nesting spots abandoned by other animals (or created for them by us, of course), so you might get another nest starting in the same spot, but you have a big gap in the autumn/winter time. The main thing is remembering, queens looking for nesting sites, they look for snug gaps, if you can cover the door gaps so they aren't visible this could help - wouldn't need to be airtight or anything, just more hidden - and if there are nearby spots where you can create new potential nest spots this could especially help as they can go to those instead. Also remember that most species of bee prefer a nesting site close to the ground. Oh, and additionally, "bee hotels" that you can get are wonderful but they are for solitary bees, not big enough for bumble bees, so they won't help tempt away bumbles. I have not tried any of this as I have never had a garden of my own, I am just passing on information I have learned from videos, lectures and charity websites. I love learning about bees and helping to spread information about them. :) Bumblebee Conservation Trust is a great source of information. It's a charity to help bumblebees and this guy in the video runs it. Last I remember it has a section on advice for moving nests.
Thank you David for this video. I have Tree Bumblebees nesting in my loft and have been dying to know what their nest looks like. I love bees and am chuffed having a nest.
Dave you sir are a 24 carat superstar, such a clever idea, pity more people don’t understand how important these little bees are. Superb video, Many thanks
This is awesome. That's so wonderful that you help them. I love bumblebees. I was curious about bumblebee hives and found your video by searching about them. I would like to learn how to help the bumblebees around my property.
I love bumblebees. Flying fluffy fatties. Unfortunately I'm clearing a large mound of old grass clippings that go back some years now and it seems a lot of bumblebees have made a home within the mound. I have to clear it in a way not to harm any of them, they fly around a bit disoriented but hopefully they'll go build a new home somewhere else.
Love the fact you didn't kill or break up their nest 🤗🤗 I'm watching a few videos and JUST learned that they build nest underground and it hit me that I found a few holes in my backyard yesterday and noticed so many bumblebees 🐝🐝🐝 glad they chose my yard 🐝🐝🐝
That is the most beautiful and adorable thing ever!!!!you are so blessed! I hope someday I will have them living near me. They love the flowers I plant just for them.🥰 🐝 my little sky kittens🥹
I have a nest just above my bedroom window you can hear them all buzzing around during the nite Have read your story and Happy to let them get on with their work ‘
Glad you support bumble bees! And wild plants and wild life the world could use more people like you! I have also been making wild gardens and trying to get bumble bees to move in! If everybody did this bumble bees would be much more common and the world would be more beautiful!
We have a bumblebee nest under our garage in the garden too! I love sitting out and watching them coming and going, busy little bees never stop from morning to night!
All my life I thought bumblebees were loners. I came across a nest while removing some old ceiling insulation and it absolutely freaked me out. Didn’t get bit but seeings that many bumbles at once swarming freaked me out.
@@art-of2tm Yes that's right! and that's just 1 example right?!..😁 and check out the description of the Leviathan in TheBible! It reads like this was the fiercest beast that ever lived on earth! 😎👍
I kid you not: that bumblebee nest looks cozy. Shame bumblebees are so short lived, such cool and cute bees seem to enjoy live in their communes way more than honeybees in their massive hives.
Hello Dave, I absolutely love honeybees, Bumblebees fall into that group too. I encourage nesting bees in my garden but did not realize that the bumblebees took me seriously and nested in my pool shed. where I go in very often. They use the gap in the door frame to come in and out, as well as under the shed from the outside. We need to do some repairs and I am not sure how to relocate them they seem to have nested in the floor board where they can access from the outside as well as from the inside. Any suggestions
I just say WoW 🙀🙀🤗😃 lucky you.. I only saw the Entré to an bumble Bee Nest once in my life. I try to go ner and capured it, but I don't saw antingen more. The nest must have been done a long way down in the ground..
tragically it won't be. Bumblebee nests are annual (in fact this species, which is probably Bombus terrestris, are lots shorter in length than annual, with a colony time of little over a few months), and die at the end of each reproductive year, producing a load of new queens which go off to found new nests the following year. In Dave's part of the country (the South East of England), this species goes through 2-3 colony cycles per year (they over-winter too)
Hi there Dave! We found this video very nice and interesting.We have found a nest in the shed while trying to clean it out which has stopped us in our tracks now as we are petrified of them.We don't really know what to do now.
Dave Goulson, do you know if bumblebees have more complicated color preferences beyond liking yellow or purple flowers? Do drones prefer yellow flowers more than queens or workers -- in other words, are there more yellow flowers after the emergence of male bumblebees? Do flowers use more vivid shades of purple to attract this year's queen(ex. lupine) and next year's queens(ex. aster)? Does the vision of bumblebees deteriorate over the season, and if so, do the flowers adapt their pedals to match bumblebee vision?
I think I might try and make a simple wooden box with perspec on the top (under the lid) so I could try and entice bumblebees to nest in it. I could observe them now and then, by opening the lid, yet not upsetting them too much as the perspex would still be there. I watched a nest today. One enormous bee, three times as large as most of the bees going in and out, went in. I wondered if this was a cuckoo bee. Surely it can't be the queen leaving and returning?
I'm thinking what the hell would you leave mortar out of those joints for?? Kudos for building potential habitat for pollinators int o your shed, brother. That was really cool.......plant people and bee people are the nicest people on the planet.
As children I remember we used cup them closed in our hands and I know for sure none of us were ever stung. I’m 50 yrs old now and I don’t have the courage to try that again. They must have treated our cupped hands as they do inside jam jars. I’m not sure who showed me how to do it and why they would show a young child how to do it. I’m assuming it was one of my older brothers. Life before Xbox and PC’s Bliss
I remember I did that as a kid. I was watching a documentary about a completely different bee and the narrator explained how the worker bees had no stinger. That's all my mind had heard. I ran outside and saw a big juicy bumblebee land on a dandelion, so I reached down and caught it in my hands. That was the story of how I recieved the worst sting I have ever received in my life lol.
I have a new nest (noticed noise) about two weeks ago and thought maybe chicks in roof eves as such faint and unusual intermittent sounds until my Neighour pointed out to me busy bees in and out of the eve which thankfully is on my side as he was wanting me to call in pest control. Nope, ain’t happening while they are in my space. I sit each evening and watch them after a stressful days work and it’s a pleasure to have them residing within maybe 2mtrs above my head but I ain’t moving my bed for nobody 😂 During the night I still hear mild activity and it’s kind of soothing to hear the night shift doing whatever they do during the dead of night. My 🐝 friends don’t realise another 500mm - 1m to their left and my neighbours would have killed these amazing little wonders. Maybe their is a God 🤔 Amen 🙏
I totally agree with you about hearing them being soothing. I have Tree Bumblebees nesting in my loft, directly above my bedroom ceiling. Their entry/exit hole is a space in the soffit right outside my bedroom window. I love hearing them at night making little squeaky buzz noises, and when they start going out foraging from about 5am. A privilege for me having them, and will miss when nest dies out.
Haulwen 05 I have these too above my bedroom in the loft space. Do you hear any noises other than a buzz? Mine make like almost a chirping sound (it’s not a bird), like a higher pitched intermittent buzz! So strange. They are definitely Bumbles too rather than a Honey Bee.
@@adampereira666 Hi Adam, yes I know exactly what you mean about the strange chirp like sound. At first when I was hearing the bees at night I thought the sound was coming from outside. We have lots of foxes around and I thought it was the screeching, baby like noises they make. Then I realised it was the bees. Sometimes I hear it a few times in a row, other times very intermittent. Hard to describe the sound but they're definitely up to something in the early hours!
I have a nest from last year, in my compost bin. I'd like to relocate it for this year to another area of the garden so I can clear out the compost bin. Any ideas on how id do this please so I don't kill or destroy the bees? Thank you
Wow! So fascinating. I see maybe 10 big boys hanging around my facia board... but after seeing the inside of the nest now I can understand why my ceiling sounds like its vibrating... Really am quite scared if flying things and I'm trying to understand if this nest will grown beyond what I see in this video, what would the traffic around the entrance be like in full swing? . They look like tree bumbles, its currently mid may
I think we have a nest under the doorstep in my kitchen patio doors. There is pointing missing in the brickwork under it and I see bumblebees coming and going. I have no idea where it goes but there must be some space under the floor possibly. They’re aren’t bothering us at all but I am worried that as the nest progresses that they might become a problem with my dogs. Will they continue to just go in and out one at a time or is there likely to be greater increased activity?
We have bumblebees in our backyard, I have no idea where they nest. I don’t know where they live so I have no idea how to not disturb them. The bumblebees are amazing at pollinating all of our raspberries and vegetables and they are so cute.
I literally found a bumble bee nest underneath my porch I was literally taking a walk until I saw a bumblebee go underneath the stairs to the porch and I realize there was a hive
Thanks for your video ☺ I store wood in a large box and I must have had nesting material in there because now I have a Bumblebee nest.Will it produce honey?
@@davegoulson6831 Oh that's fine Im just gonna leave them too it..I think I feel privileged in a way ..Im chuffed they're there ..thanks for your reply ☺
This guy seems very nice. Wish everybody appreciated nature like him
I agree and wish the same.
Yes
I agree
Sigh some ppl do appreciate nature...But they don't have a soft beautiful voice like his.
World would be a beautiful and peaceful place
Man built his entire shed while thinking of helping out the bumbles.
Man is a hero.
*his entire career, man's an important bumblebee researcher
I absolutely love bumblebees. Whenever I see one I can't keep my eyes off of it. They're so adorable and just gently fly around and land on flowers. Bees are awesome 💜
Bumblebees scare me they are so big esp queens.
I like honeybees/thin bees they dont scare me.
I have a bumble colony
Under. Box
not until you got stung buddy
I just love that you built your shed this way. Save the bees! I am very allergic but I still want them to be safe & seeing what you did there inspires me to do the same.
You are a beautiful soul for building them spaces to nest. Thank you so much for sharing! 🤗🇨🇦
That is very nice of you to say so, thank you :)
I'VE JUST NOTICED A BUMBLEBEE NEST IN THE EVES OF MY HOUSE AND CONSIDER IT A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE SUCH LOVELY GUESTS. IT'S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT NATURE IS STILL IN RHYTHM AND WOKING HARD.
We have a nest in our garage. I have to open the garage door for them and they are right there heading in and out. They seem appreciate.
❤
Just be careful a bumblebee attack can be dangerous because they don't have barbs so they can sting repeatedly
@@Mike-01234 Yeah but only if you piss them off. I have only got stung once by a bumblebee but that was my fault. Wasps on the other hand attack you for no reason.
@@Mike-01234 Black ground bees are way worse.
Why aren’t there more people like you. Great work Dave!
Thank you :)
Bumblebees are fat and hairy they freak me out
The queen bumblebees are huge
@@arunicahom-choudhury1641 I've pet bumblebees when there on a flower and never got stung by a bee only by a wasp edit and the flower that I petted them on 😂 because it's a bull thistle
Love this so much. I have a bumblebee colony under my porch and I was really wanting to see it so I tried an endoscope but a bee noticed and it confronted me 😂
That's funny 😂
Bumblebees are my favorite bug they are so cute! They don't hurt anyone are fun to watch and help the earth. Love them.
I love the way they'll move in anywhere that is suitable. Near us, they've taken over an old tractor. I love watching and filming them go about their daily business.
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@@myriawilliams1151 What an utterly pointless reply.
Very nice, Dave. Thanks for that. They are great pollinators.
that's pretty cool ! I always thought bumblebees were solitary critters. thanks for sharing !!
If you ever get to see a bumblebee in your yard, watch them collect pollen. When they have enough, you’ll see them fly high and far away, and that’s most likely to their nest.
Thanks so much for this great vid! Every year we have bumble bees nesting in the walls of our house and I've been longing to know what they're up to. This year they are under living room floor, droning away and sounding so mysteriously busy. Fabulous creatures. Big smile, Tish 🌺
I only just thought. They must have pretty amazing eyes. Their nests are made in such dark places! And they also have to be able to see well in the light. Or perhaps they make up for it with other senses, in the dark.
They can see UV light
@@MGZero that's amazing! Keep learning new things about my favourite creatures. :D I knew they can't see red, and that's why red light isn't bothersome to them, but I didn't know they can see UV.
@@Torthrodhel most pollinating insects can see in UV that's why flowers come in bright colours
What a kind man you are doing that for our little "sky pandas" I adore them. I had them living under my outside stairs one summer, I just let them be. They never bothered with us or the dogs walking by them all day long.
Bumblebees are cute and hairy looking, hard working and an important role in growing plants. Love them.
This made my day! Thank you so much. Always wondered if bumblebees lived together or were solo creatures.
When I was a child I use to spot individual ones fly inside flower heads, then would (very) gently stroke their furry backs with 1 finger. They didn't mind, and just got on with collecting pollen.
Bumblebees are the cutest. I haven’t seen many lately.
That is amazing Dave. I have just seen a lot of bumblebees going in and out of the roof space above our front porch. After reading that these amazing little creatures do not damage your house I will just let them go about their business. Thanks for the video Dave.
I've got one under my shed, doesn't bother me, they seem happy enough! Nice to see them flying around
Just found this video. Thank you for this! What a great idea. I love the way your not afraid to make space for the pollinators that need Places to nest! How cool!
I find it absolutely hilarious how the honeybee makes a perfectly-symmetrical, evenly spaced hive of identical hexagons that tesselate perfectly with no wasted space, while the bumblebee has this horrendous-looking mess of a hive that looks so crudely cobbled together like some sort of art project crammed on the due date. There are busy bees, and there are busy bees who try their hardest but simply have no artistic talent whatsoever 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol!
Bumblebees have a life span of 28 days and have a hive number between 50-400 they cannot waste time.
Says a pig with no arms nor legs XD
Just disliked your comment for diversity lol
It's like you could say they're just ....bumbling about...
I'm thrilled that the bees have decided to make a nest in my birdbox this year. The box has been there for 10 years and never been used before.
Incredible! Thanks for the peek inside and for telling us they have a special name .. buff tail bumblies!
Great video, as a pest controller I get to see lots of these and always try to relocate if they're in a precarious position.
ELF MAN 24 I always ask people to put up with them, however, they do have the potential to sting, which to some people can be life threatening in extreme circumstances.......
ELF MAN 24 I had to when they were living in my campervan, unfortunately couldn't remove the nest without breaking it as they were stuck in a area that would have involved using an angle grinder and writing off the van to get them out in one piece.
How do you do this? I have one in my compost bin id like to relocate without harming them thanks
@@anesidorapandora9646
Try and locate the whole next, including the Queen and workers, find a nice spot for them, same the other workers will find them as the Queen and other workers will send out pheremone signals do it can be located...
@@anesidorapandora9646 if you can wait, bumblebee nests don't last long at all. By the end of the year they are all gone; only the queens last the full year and they hibernate before starting a new nest when it gets warmer. The timing varies according to species of bumble, but there are still definite limits. They don't construct their own nests - they exclusively take over the nesting spots abandoned by other animals (or created for them by us, of course), so you might get another nest starting in the same spot, but you have a big gap in the autumn/winter time. The main thing is remembering, queens looking for nesting sites, they look for snug gaps, if you can cover the door gaps so they aren't visible this could help - wouldn't need to be airtight or anything, just more hidden - and if there are nearby spots where you can create new potential nest spots this could especially help as they can go to those instead. Also remember that most species of bee prefer a nesting site close to the ground. Oh, and additionally, "bee hotels" that you can get are wonderful but they are for solitary bees, not big enough for bumble bees, so they won't help tempt away bumbles. I have not tried any of this as I have never had a garden of my own, I am just passing on information I have learned from videos, lectures and charity websites. I love learning about bees and helping to spread information about them. :)
Bumblebee Conservation Trust is a great source of information. It's a charity to help bumblebees and this guy in the video runs it. Last I remember it has a section on advice for moving nests.
Thank you David for this video. I have Tree Bumblebees nesting in my loft and have been dying to know what their nest looks like. I love bees and am chuffed having a nest.
Dave you sir are a 24 carat superstar, such a clever idea, pity more people don’t understand how important these little bees are. Superb video, Many thanks
I’m building a shed this Easter and I will be doing this , fantastic idea
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you so very much for the video, Dave. I could watch these over and over again.
thx for showing me a bumble bee nest, ive only known what honeybee nests look like but never wondered about any other species of bees nest until now 👍
When I was a little girl in the 1970's bumblebees would sit on my hand, and I was never stung by one.
They never do sting unless they or their nest is under threat or if they feel under threat.
This is awesome. That's so wonderful that you help them.
I love bumblebees. I was curious about bumblebee hives and found your video by searching about them. I would like to learn how to help the bumblebees around my property.
Thank you for posting this Dave! I will build a bumblebee hive in my garage in the Spring. Save the bees! : )
I love bumblebees. Flying fluffy fatties. Unfortunately I'm clearing a large mound of old grass clippings that go back some years now and it seems a lot of bumblebees have made a home within the mound. I have to clear it in a way not to harm any of them, they fly around a bit disoriented but hopefully they'll go build a new home somewhere else.
Bumblebee nests die of naturally at this time, if you could leave it for a few more days they'll be gone anyway
Wonderful, we have Lavender in our garden and every year they are all over it, love the Bumblebees.
Love the fact you didn't kill or break up their nest 🤗🤗 I'm watching a few videos and JUST learned that they build nest underground and it hit me that I found a few holes in my backyard yesterday and noticed so many bumblebees 🐝🐝🐝 glad they chose my yard 🐝🐝🐝
I'm so excited for you. I just discovered a bumblebee nest in my yard. I'm very excited! 🐝
Bumblebees are like the friendly (not as agressive) cousin to hunnybees that don't make honey.
That is the most beautiful and adorable thing ever!!!!you are so blessed! I hope someday I will have them living near me. They love the flowers I plant just for them.🥰 🐝 my little sky kittens🥹
I have a nest just above my bedroom window you can hear them all buzzing around during the nite
Have read your story and Happy to let them get on with their work ‘
Glad you support bumble bees! And wild plants and wild life the world could use more people like you! I have also been making wild gardens and trying to get bumble bees to move in! If everybody did this bumble bees would be much more common and the world would be more beautiful!
We have a bumblebee nest under our garage in the garden too! I love sitting out and watching them coming and going, busy little bees never stop from morning to night!
Thank you for interesting video. Best wishes and great respect to the entomologists and devoted beekeepers and bumble-bees lovers!
All my life I thought bumblebees were loners. I came across a nest while removing some old ceiling insulation and it absolutely freaked me out. Didn’t get bit but seeings that many bumbles at once swarming freaked me out.
The bumblebees seems pretty calm even though something could be invading the hive.
Wow that's so amazing. I'd love to have a bumblebee colony in my garden
You are an amazing human being. Superb initiative ❤️
Your persona and charisma is warm bro. Love how you treat them and respect nature💯. It’s sincere
TheLORD made all of the different bugs, and animals, 🤗 with all their unique homes and skills ... HE is the Greatest Artist of all. 🥰
He also made Tyrannosaurus Rex. Something to think about...
@@art-of2tm Yes that's right! and that's just 1 example right?!..😁 and check out the description of the Leviathan in TheBible! It reads like this was the fiercest beast that ever lived on earth! 😎👍
This was absolutely wonderful. I love Bumblebees and wish I could have a nest, but I live in an apartment :)
Maybe one day!
Good man we also have BEES under our shed we also have been Blessed love your lift up boxes though will be showing the Hubby this idea
Fantastic I've always wondered about bumblebee nests👍
Gr8 video, I'm Australian, and have seen a bumblebee since I was a kid 40years ago
I kid you not: that bumblebee nest looks cozy. Shame bumblebees are so short lived, such cool and cute bees seem to enjoy live in their communes way more than honeybees in their massive hives.
Hello Dave, I absolutely love honeybees, Bumblebees fall into that group too. I encourage nesting bees in my garden but did not realize that the bumblebees took me seriously and nested in my pool shed. where I go in very often. They use the gap in the door frame to come in and out, as well as under the shed from the outside. We need to do some repairs and I am not sure how to relocate them they seem to have nested in the floor board where they can access from the outside as well as from the inside. Any suggestions
Brilliant idea! I adore bumble bees 🐝🌷🌸🌼🌻🌺
I just say WoW 🙀🙀🤗😃 lucky you.. I only saw the Entré to an bumble Bee Nest once in my life. I try to go ner and capured it, but I don't saw antingen more. The nest must have been done a long way down in the ground..
Oh my gosh! I love your books! And now I find that you have a youtube channel! :D
Instant subscribe.
Bumblebees are my absolute favorite.
Thank you! "Bee Quest" coming soon(ish)!
I will keep an eye out for it!
Glad you like the books! Just finished another "The Garden Jungle" :)
you sir have a nice garden
I'm glade I'm not the only one wondering about bumblebees and there nest
If that was in my shed I would take a bumblebee and straight up hug it they’re so cute
So cool Dave!! Hope the nest is still going
tragically it won't be. Bumblebee nests are annual (in fact this species, which is probably Bombus terrestris, are lots shorter in length than annual, with a colony time of little over a few months), and die at the end of each reproductive year, producing a load of new queens which go off to found new nests the following year.
In Dave's part of the country (the South East of England), this species goes through 2-3 colony cycles per year (they over-winter too)
This guy sounds too sweet for this cruel world.
Hi there Dave! We found this video very nice and interesting.We have found a nest in the shed while trying to clean it out which has stopped us in our tracks now as we are petrified of them.We don't really know what to do now.
Wow. YOu were planning on attracting them!!!
Awesome coexistence with nature!!❤❤❤❤
That's fantastic!
Unfortunately just found one of these bee's in my home (29th October), I'm hoping it is not going to die. It doesn't seem that cold.
The humble Bumblebee, they get their jobs done in their short lifespan 🐝
Dave Goulson, do you know if bumblebees have more complicated color preferences beyond liking yellow or purple flowers? Do drones prefer yellow flowers more than queens or workers -- in other words, are there more yellow flowers after the emergence of male bumblebees? Do flowers use more vivid shades of purple to attract this year's queen(ex. lupine) and next year's queens(ex. aster)? Does the vision of bumblebees deteriorate over the season, and if so, do the flowers adapt their pedals to match bumblebee vision?
That is incredible. Well done to you sir.
One fo my spirit animals is a bumblebee.
Beautiful.
I think I might try and make a simple wooden box with perspec on the top (under the lid) so I could try and entice bumblebees to nest in it. I could observe them now and then, by opening the lid, yet not upsetting them too much as the perspex would still be there.
I watched a nest today. One enormous bee, three times as large as most of the bees going in and out, went in. I wondered if this was a cuckoo bee. Surely it can't be the queen leaving and returning?
I adore bumblebees
You can have mine then..They sting like crazy
Fantastic Dave. Thank you 👍😊
I'm thinking what the hell would you leave mortar out of those joints for?? Kudos for building potential habitat for pollinators int o your shed, brother. That was really cool.......plant people and bee people are the nicest people on the planet.
So fluffy and cute.
Great video was worried about a nest in my roof but seeing this has eased my mind to let them bee lol
As children I remember we used cup them closed in our hands and I know for sure none of us were ever stung.
I’m 50 yrs old now and I don’t have the courage to try that again.
They must have treated our cupped hands as they do inside jam jars.
I’m not sure who showed me how to do it and why they would show a young child how to do it.
I’m assuming it was one of my older brothers.
Life before Xbox and PC’s
Bliss
The yellow nose ones had no sting, but I got stung by the other ones.....fuck knows how we worked out the yellow ones didnt....lol
I remember I did that as a kid. I was watching a documentary about a completely different bee and the narrator explained how the worker bees had no stinger. That's all my mind had heard. I ran outside and saw a big juicy bumblebee land on a dandelion, so I reached down and caught it in my hands. That was the story of how I recieved the worst sting I have ever received in my life lol.
I have just discovered bumble bees have nested it the roof tiles above my porch, really exciting, we need to protect these wonderful little creatures.
I have a new nest (noticed noise) about two weeks ago and thought maybe chicks in roof eves as such faint and unusual intermittent sounds until my Neighour pointed out to me busy bees in and out of the eve which thankfully is on my side as he was wanting me to call in pest control.
Nope, ain’t happening while they are in my space.
I sit each evening and watch them after a stressful days work and it’s a pleasure to have them residing within maybe 2mtrs above my head but I ain’t moving my bed for nobody 😂
During the night I still hear mild activity and it’s kind of soothing to hear the night shift doing whatever they do during the dead of night.
My 🐝 friends don’t realise another 500mm - 1m to their left and my neighbours would have killed these amazing little wonders.
Maybe their is a God 🤔
Amen 🙏
I totally agree with you about hearing them being soothing. I have Tree Bumblebees nesting in my loft, directly above my bedroom ceiling. Their entry/exit hole is a space in the soffit right outside my bedroom window. I love hearing them at night making little squeaky buzz noises, and when they start going out foraging from about 5am. A privilege for me having them, and will miss when nest dies out.
Haulwen 05 I have these too above my bedroom in the loft space. Do you hear any noises other than a buzz? Mine make like almost a chirping sound (it’s not a bird), like a higher pitched intermittent buzz! So strange. They are definitely Bumbles too rather than a Honey Bee.
@@adampereira666 Hi Adam, yes I know exactly what you mean about the strange chirp like sound. At first when I was hearing the bees at night I thought the sound was coming from outside. We have lots of foxes around and I thought it was the screeching, baby like noises they make. Then I realised it was the bees. Sometimes I hear it a few times in a row, other times very intermittent. Hard to describe the sound but they're definitely up to something in the early hours!
Hi Dave, can you tell me what kind of material you left in the box to encourage the nest build for the bees?
I realized that I understand most things about bees, and I have a rudimentary knowledge of wasps, but absolutely nothing on bumblebees. So I came here
bumble bees are the only bees that aren’t scary looking to me
Thanks for sharing this with us, David! What is the second container they are nesting in?
it's a box
That was wonderful.
I got a bumble bee nest in my crawl space in my house and I just leave them alone they like my little Neighbors
I have a nest from last year, in my compost bin. I'd like to relocate it for this year to another area of the garden so I can clear out the compost bin. Any ideas on how id do this please so I don't kill or destroy the bees? Thank you
Bumblebee nests die in the winter, so empty out your compost any time between October and March
Wow! So fascinating.
I see maybe 10 big boys hanging around my facia board... but after seeing the inside of the nest now I can understand why my ceiling sounds like its vibrating...
Really am quite scared if flying things and I'm trying to understand if this nest will grown beyond what I see in this video, what would the traffic around the entrance be like in full swing? .
They look like tree bumbles, its currently mid may
I think we have a nest under the doorstep in my kitchen patio doors. There is pointing missing in the brickwork under it and I see bumblebees coming and going. I have no idea where it goes but there must be some space under the floor possibly. They’re aren’t bothering us at all but I am worried that as the nest progresses that they might become a problem with my dogs. Will they continue to just go in and out one at a time or is there likely to be greater increased activity?
I didn’t know that so thanks for letting me know!
Bumble bees have no desire to hurt anyone if they're left alone
We have bumblebees in our backyard, I have no idea where they nest. I don’t know where they live so I have no idea how to not disturb them. The bumblebees are amazing at pollinating all of our raspberries and vegetables and they are so cute.
I literally found a bumble bee nest underneath my porch I was literally taking a walk until I saw a bumblebee go underneath the stairs to the porch and I realize there was a hive
Thanks for your video ☺ I store wood in a large box and I must have had nesting material in there because now I have a Bumblebee nest.Will it produce honey?
A little bit, but only enough for the bees....
@@davegoulson6831 Oh that's fine Im just gonna leave them too it..I think I feel privileged in a way ..Im chuffed they're there ..thanks for your reply ☺
It looks like an invitation to a mouse though! Mice! Many, many mice.
Awesome with a look into such a bumblebee nest, thx !
Glad you like it!
Honeybees: ok guys we will make our hive even and look good
Bumblebees:dhuyya hive
i love bumble bees
Wait.. does that mean my bird box, which was infiltrated by bumblebees, looks like that? Woahh