Solitary Bee Blog

Solitary bees are great for the ecology of their environment. They are focused on what is important to them as they know life is short - living only 6 weeks in their flying form before dying exhausted.

According to the experts, each bee can pollinate up to ten times more flowers than a honey bee but they are in no way aggressive to those in their midst. Over here in France, they are often misunderstood by people looking on; where my ‘colony’ of bees live, the locals here refer to them as lazy bees because they don’t produce honey (and thus appear to be of no exploitable value).

For me however they are a source of inspiration. What they achieve in their focussed short existence leaves the world in a much better shape - in 2007 our orchards were full of fruit.

So this is my little blog dedicated to recording my experiences of them -  to those solitary b’s who work selfishly to make the world a better place.