{"id":4933,"date":"2026-06-03T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:34:11","slug":"bees-in-bloomsbury-12-storeys-high-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=4933","title":{"rendered":"Bees in Bloomsbury – 12 storeys high! (May 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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During an hour-long monitoring visit to the roof of a 12 storey building in Bloomsbury on 28 May, from 9.30- 10.30, with Ryan Mesarcik at Q&S Landscapes, we recorded 8 different bee species foraging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Many Red-tailed bumblebees<\/strong> (14-16mm) on Hawkbit (pictured), Knapweed and Vetch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. One Leafcutter bee<\/strong> (9-10mm) (pictured) on Purple vetch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Six Four-banded flower bees<\/strong>\u00a0 (7-8mm) on Vipers bugloss (pictured)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. A few Common furrow bees <\/strong>(8-10mm) on Mexican fleabane and Oxeye daisy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. A Yellow-face bee <\/strong>(4.5mm) on Mexican fleabane<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. A Blue mason bee<\/strong> (6-7mm) on Clover<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Many Buff-tailed bumblebees<\/strong> (13-18mm) on: Hawkbit (Dandelion-like), Kidney vetch, Clover, Ragged robin, Vipers Bugloss, Oxeye daisy, Knapweed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Many honeybees<\/strong> (9-10mm) on Hawkbit and Knapweed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    We used our eyes, our phones, and our bee charts to record and identify bees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Urban Bees has been working with maintenance contractor, Q&S,the gardener designer and building manager, Savills to feed as many different bee species as possible throughout spring and summer on the huge roof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    It just goes to show with the right flowers – natives and non natives – and irrigation that wild bumblebees and small solitary bees will forage that high. We don’t know where any of them are nesting! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A June survey will follow at the end of the month…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During an hour-long monitoring visit to the roof of a 12 storey building in Bloomsbury on 28 May, from 9.30- 10.30, with Ryan Mesarcik at Q&S Landscapes, we recorded 8 different bee species foraging: We used our eyes, our phones, and our bee charts to record and identify bees. Urban Bees has been working with […]<\/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":[46,36,25,49],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-bee-spotting","tag-bumblebees","tag-solitary-bees","tag-wild-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","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=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}