Mike Coon

Rodney Blackall wrote:
> In Buckingham town centre there are some flats whose ground level
> windows open onto large "window troughs" filled with bare earth.
> Thursday morning this earth was pocked with fairly evenly spaced
> holes being excavated by lots of busy bees. They were uniformly dark
> and hairy like small bumble-bees but good at hovering.
>
> I can find nothing like them in my field guide to British insects;
> there is a description that seems to fit their behaviour but the
> plate that is supposed to show them does not. Any guesses (African
> mining bees driven out by Global Warming?!)
>
> Sometime soon they will be noticed and moves taken to eradicate them
> - which would be a shame if they are rare.

You could ask the helpful people at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/

Since they are evidently solitary in habit they are not going to band
together to defend the "colony" and thus are no threat to anyone.

Mike.
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