Over winter, leaving seed heads in place provides shelter for insects like Ladybirds, and food for seed-eating birds such as Goldfinch.

Congratulations Andrea Hallick on winning a copy of The Bee Who Loved Words! 🥳 I hope you'll enjoy sharing my book in your school 🥰
Thank you to Buglife for running the #SolitaryBeeHour giveaway and to PuffinBooks for supporting! 🐝 #thebeewholovedwords

#BeeFlyOrWasp answers

1️⃣ Tawny Mining Bee (𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑣𝑎)
2️⃣ Heath Bee-fly (𝐵𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟)
3️⃣ Red-tailed Bumblebee (𝐵𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑠)
4️⃣ a spider wasp (𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑠)

#SolitaryBeeHour

Thank you for joining us for #SolitaryBee Hour !

🐝We hope you enjoyed our little quiz?

Don't forget that you can continue your #SolitaryBee #LearnLoveShare journey by visiting our website
👇
buglife.org.uk/get-involved/s…

We're taking a break in January but join us again in February!

Here's our fourth December mystery guest in #BeeFlyOrWasp !

Reply to this tweet with your answer 𝐵𝑒𝑒, 𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑝; bonus point if you can name the species too!

😍 No prizes, just an opportunity #LearnLoveShare

❓Answers will be posted when #SolitaryBeeHour ends

Here's our third December mystery guest in #BeeFlyOrWasp !

Reply to this tweet with your answer 𝐵𝑒𝑒, 𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑝; bonus point if you can name the species too!

😍 No prizes, just an opportunity #LearnLoveShare

❓Answers will be posted when #SolitaryBeeHour ends

Here's our second December mystery guest in #BeeFlyOrWasp !

Reply to this tweet with your answer 𝐵𝑒𝑒, 𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑝; bonus point if you can name the species too!

😍 No prizes, just an opportunity #LearnLoveShare

❓Answers will be posted when #SolitaryBeeHour ends

1st December, a bit chilly and deep into diapause season! But at least it's #SolitaryBeeHour . Here's my favourite pic of a tiny, metallic #solitarybee from sunnier times in #Cymru earlier this year, a male lasioglossum species. Solitary Bee Week #solitarybee s #pollinators Enjoy!

Here's our first December mystery guest in #BeeFlyOrWasp !

Reply to this tweet with your answer 𝐵𝑒𝑒, 𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑝; bonus point if you can name the species too!

😍 No prizes, just an opportunity #LearnLoveShare

❓Answers will be posted when #SolitaryBeeHour ends

🐝𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞r🐝

🤩We're delighted to share that Andrea Hallick is our November #SolitaryBeeHour competition winner!

Winning a copy of award-winning author Helen Docherty 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🥦's book 'The Bee Who Loved Words'

Congratulations & thank you for loving #SolitaryBees !🐝

Welcome to December's #SolitaryBeeHour !

💤We're looking forward to creating a #buzz !💤

🐝Have you continued to #EarnYourStripes , #WearYourStripes & #ShareYourStripes for #SolitaryBees ?

This month we the winner of our competition; stay tuned for more details!

Helen Docherty 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🥦

Don't forget to join us for #SolitaryBee Hour 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖!

🐝 #WearYourStripes & #ShareYourStripes ; join us for an hour & spread the #SolitaryBee love.

December's hour sees us sharing the winner of our November #SolitaryBee Hour Giveaway!

See you there!

#LearnLoveShare

Have you entered our #SolitaryBeeHour giveaway?

Just one week to go before it closes & then we'll announce the winner during December's #SolitaryBeeHour !

Find out more & enter 👇

Still plenty of time to enter our November #SolitaryBeeHour giveaway!

Winner announced during December's #SolitaryBeeHour

Find out more & enter
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#BeeFlyOrWasp answers

1️⃣ Pine Hoverfly (𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑥)
2️⃣ Rose Leaf Cutter Bee (𝑀𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠)
3️⃣ Golden-fringed Mason Bee (𝑂𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎)
4️⃣ Figwort Mason Wasp (𝑆𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠)

#SolitaryBeeHour

Thank you for joining us for #SolitaryBee Hour !

🐝We hope you enjoyed our little quiz?

Don't forget that you can continue your #SolitaryBee #LearnLoveShare journey by visiting our website.
👇
buglife.org.uk/get-involved/s…

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫!

#SolitaryBeeHour
Solitary Bee Week

#SolitaryBeeHour Not just our favourite solitary bee box but full of leafcutters and mason bees too

We got great feedback on Guernsey's top solitary bees from our schools programme #SolitaryBeeHour