Busy busy Bees
With a little help from Ikea
Joan
4/12/20243 min read
When I was a child, I only knew of one kind of bee. It was fat and fuzzy, with yellow and black stripes, and was best avoided. Oh yes, and it gave us honey. It is only since I came to France that I became aware that there are many different kinds of bee. Indeed, they need not even be yellow and black. What's more, far from avoiding them, I now realise what an important ecological role they play. We shall do our very best to encourage them at Domaine des Rochers.
Today is one of the sunniest and warmest days we have had this spring and the air is abuzz. The mason bees are working hard . At one time these small bees used to come into our conservatory, and become trapped. Clearly something was attracting them, but what was it? This year they are content to remain just outside. So what's it all about? The answer is Ikea ! So what's a Swedish furniture manufacturer got to do with bees? Here are the wooden Ikea storage shelves that they are buzzing around which have now been moved outside to our patio. What's the great attraction?