Nature Notes

High up on my terrace...a whole lot of bees and a BUTTERFLY just now. How did they get here?

I get bees and wasps, as well as butterflys and lots of birds, and I'm on the 7th floor. I think nature adapts to city living, just like us.

I noticed a load of white butterflies on the hedges around the (hideous) Faraday 'monument' in the centre of the Nth E+C roundabout, I wondered how in heaven they got there, I bet they set wing from there to you!

Actually my butterfly was a kind of Red Admiral type..not your common old Cabbage WHite, and I'm on 13th Floor...bloody long way up for one small butterfly never mind the bees...

They go across the channel sometimes, those things. Amazing. I've just had a HUGE bumble bee bumbling around in my flat lookng lost. I wonder if it was a queen, it was a monster and a very loud buzzer. I'm only on the first floor though, and have loads of flowers, so I'm always getting bees and butterflies.

You probably all know, but don't kill bumblebees, they are endangered. You can kill wasps though, I hate those things!

I think honey bees have a range of six miles, I have seen loads of worker bees, a few butterflies, but as yet only a few bumblebees...thats when i can walk down the garden without falling over the bindwind, thistles etc..

zoe! we shouldn't kill wasps!

Why, are they endangered? I seem to get loads, and they aren't industrious like bees, they just cheat with their repeated stinging.

I'm probably being unfair, but I just can't see any redeaming features!

Jackie, I think there is an apiary barely 800 metres west from you as the bee flies, at Roots and Shoots off Walnut Tree Walk in Kennington