Off Topic Bloody bee

So for the past week or so there's been a honeybee in our garden, it hovers right smack in the middle of the grass a metre off the ground and it will not feck off. When another bee turns up there'll be a quick airborne tussle and it'll go right back to its spot after.

Wtf is it doing? How long does it plan to do it for? Can anyone shed any light on it? Getting on my wick, try and read outside or play with the kids and it's always buzzing around your head like a mosquito.

 

Maybe from a destroyed nest and not getting accepted by another colony.
Or it's a @Wolfy bee and BEEn ostracized

 

I give them sugar water when they get dehydrated in me conservatory then let em go

 

I could write him a letter of recommendation speaking of his fine persistent character but I wouldn't know where to send it. Seems like we're stuck with him for the time being.

I always look after them too, good feeling when they have a little sup and fly away after a rest.

 

Probably looking for food, If you've got any pot plant in flower at the moment - put it near and then gradually move it further away.
- if that doesn't work it's probably a drone and you are being stalked

 

There's a chance it will sting, so I would hit it with a tennis racket.

 

I find foam or sprays work well, plus sticky paper or just a rolled up newspaper.

 

I think he thinks I'm a flower, lands on me often enough. Daft bugger.

We haven't got anything in flower out there really, the border was ravaged by me and the neighbour trampling all over it replacing the fence which blew over. The heather on the wall planter just started flowering yesterday but that's about it.

 

It's unlikely to be a bee, bees don't hover - they're too busy to waste energy hovering and they're only territorial near the hive.. Its probably one of these

Or more likely one of these

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristalis_tenax

They are both harmless and can't sting. Tenax is good for thegarden as the larva eat aphids.

Another bee fact and common misconception is that bees die when they sting. This is only true of domestic honey bees: wild bees/bumble bees an sting as many times as they fancy, they don't have barbed stings.

 

Sounds like it's a Tenax from the description, it's a territorial little sod. Good to know that as annoying as it can be nobody's going to be stung by it, cheers.

 

We had ants in the house a couple years ago so borax and sugar did the job !, bees like privets mainly so i got rid of ours !

 

Just what the world needs, get rid of the bees and we all face extinction!!!

 

We have something very similar. I assumed it was a hornet.

 

Except the queen honey bee.
And the drones don't sting
Quite amazing things bees though.
Had a couple of nests here in a bird house. As well as some blue tits.
Which haven't come back this year probably due to the bastid cats.
Although I don't mind them killing the mice.

 

I do for wasps but not bees.
They're not aggressive like bees.

 

Do wasps like bees save the planet/food?

 

They are very important to the ecosystem yes but I can't stand the fookers

 

fookin hate wasps, come near me and they're dead

 

Well there’s my fact for the day. Tenax

Might as well go back to bed now. Cheers

 

I love bees! My Dad used to keep them, although this did lead to me being hospitalised during the 1998 World Cup.

I always understood that bumble bees were more likely to bite before stinging anyway.