With our bee hive kit enjoy the sight and sound of native Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris audax) at work pollinating your garden with your very own garden hive...
Pollination is as important to gardeners as it is to farmers and growers, without it fruit and pod vegetables do not set and yields are reduced. Bees are probably the most important pollinating insect and their recent decline in numbers has been widely reported.
Planting bee friendly plants will help attract many different bee species to your garden but now gardeners can introduce their own bumblebee colonies with this hive!
This is also the replacement box of bumblee bees that you can slot straight into your bumble bee lodge.
Properties
•This is a live colony of bumblebees
•Housed and supplied in a maintenance free hive
•Each hive contains a queen bumblebee, workers and bee food
•Our bumblebees are a native UK species
•Reared in disease free, hygienic conditions for release into British gardens and wildlife areas
•Each colony has a viewing panel under the lid for observation of the bees
•Bumblebees are released by an easy to use trap door system
•Our hives incorporate a “bee home” system that allows bees back into the hive and holds them for later release if needed
•Our bumblebees will pollinate a wide variety of plants outdoors including fruit and some vegetable plants. They also help maximise yields from greenhouse grown plants like Tomatoes, Peppers and Aubergines
This product is only available for mainland UK delivery.