{"id":4629,"date":"2025-08-01T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:22:08","slug":"regents-park-bee-safari-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"Regent’s Park bee safari – July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum<\/em>), Photo credit: Jonathan Goldberg<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a late morning bee safari in Regent’s Park, the dull overcast skies were threatening rain. I didn’t have great hopes for showing the Lord Mayor of Westminster many different bee species on our tour of the dry garden, the late-flowering perennial borders and the allotment. The highlight of the tour was this lovely orange-bottomed Early bumblebee (above) foraging on late summer alliums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buff-tailed bumblebees <\/em>(Bombus terrestris<\/em>) Photo credit: Jonathan Goldberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did expect to see our most ubiquitous bee, the Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris<\/em>). They were out in force on any lavender still in flower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Photo credit: Jonathan Goldberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, honeybees were all over saucer-shaped flowers, like these Nasturtium, in the park’s allotment where we ended our safari. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We did see some Common carder bees (Bombus pascuorum<\/em>) – some with a very gingery thorax, and some a much paler colour as they’d been bleached by the sun. They dart around so quickly we didn’t get a good photo of them in the park, but later that week I got this shot of one on a hebe. I have cropped the photo for a close up of the bee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And tiny, black furrow bees were out too. Again, I didn’t get a photo at the time as I was too busy showing the Lord Mayor, but later that week I found one on a Rudbeckia and managed to take this shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum), Photo credit: Jonathan Goldberg On a late morning bee safari in Regent’s Park, the dull overcast skies were threatening rain. I didn’t have great hopes for showing the Lord Mayor of Westminster many different bee species on our tour of the dry garden, the late-flowering perennial borders and the allotment. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}