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Jules

A rare sight I felt very privileged to see - a wild hive of exposed when the dead tree they were nesting in fell. Too often dead trees are cleared away out of fear of liability or a misplaced sense of tidiness, but they have an amazing afterlife nourishing fungi and insects, & providing sheltering cavities for birds, bats and bees.

The exposed honeycomb after the tree cavity broke open, with bits of broken wood lying across it. The comb is rounded and organically shaped to fit the tree cavity, and was I think hanging in parallel sheets from the top of the cavity before it fell. It is dark with age but the cells at the edges appear to be empty, perhaps having already been cleared out by the bees. The bees themselves are clustered around the central area of the comb, calmly and purposely emptying the cells of honey
The fallen tree in the woodland, showing the part about 2/3 of the way up that splintered open to reveal the hive
Sep 10, 2023, 01:51 PM·Public·Tusky
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