Subject: [Tweeters] Bumble bees
Date: May 8 07:22:07 2005
From: KScarbrough - kscarbrough at verizon.net
I saw the chesnut-back chickadee making stabbing motions at the entrance to his birdhouse. Turns out he was extracting bumble bees which had apparently gotten there first; I found one dying on the ground below. I'd wanted to make sure it wasn't more wasps (although I have nothing against them). I tried to extract the bees but their angry buzzing made me think twice.
I haven't seen the chestie back and shall miss him building his nest there this year so I put up another house on a nearby tree.
Do we need to shelter our pollinating friends or are they doing okay, environmentally speaking?
Kerri W. Scarbrough, O.D.
Woodinville, WA