You may remember last spring when Charlie found this strange buzzy, fluffy thing.
Bumble Bees like our Lavender
Well, over the winter we have been doing our research and it turns out that these are Bumble Bees and are very important for our garden.
Mum says that Bumble Bees are endangered which means they are dying out and may soon be gone from the gardens for ever. This made us very sad and we decided to see what we could do.
There is a very kind organisation called the Bumble Bee Conseravation Trust and they have a wonderful website telling us all about the different types of Bumble Bee and what we can do to help them. They even have one of us…Toby the Springer Spaniel is a Bumble Bee sniffer dog!
They have a list of garden flowers that the Bees need from spring to Summer so we checked it and are pleased that my mum has nearly all of these plants in our garden.
Bumble Bees can’t travel as far as we can walk and they need food within 1.5Km of their home, so we have asked mum and dad if we can put some Bumble Bee Houses in the garden. Mum is going to make some…we will let you know how she gets on.
We saw a programme about Charles Darwin last night which showed us how horrible field mice had wrecked the Bumble Bee Homes, so we are going to make sure mummy catches all the mice in the garden, but I think she does this anyway because they eat all her seedlings.
We are going to keep a close eye on our Bees this year and we will keep you updated.
Buster.
