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Thread: Bees prefer aphids!

  1. 27-Jun-08, 22:27 #1
    Stargazer
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    Default Bees prefer aphids!

    This BBC news clip from the highlands says bees are heading for the sticky sap from aphids.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...ds/7470859.stm

    I noticed this in my garden, the bees seem to prefer the sap from whitefly on the tips of a hawthorn hedge and ignore a patch of uncut grass covered in clover flowers.
    Has any body else noticed this preference? Is it new?
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  2. 28-Jun-08, 11:28 #2
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    as a footnote before everyone starts rushing off to buy a hive, it's bumble bee's - honey bees still go for plants !!
  3. 28-Jun-08, 19:11 #3
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    The decline in the bee population is very obvious this year. Some bushes/flowers that I have that are normally covered in bees have just two or three on them.
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