Where might you find bumblebees now that October is here?
Well on warm sunny days you could try any flowering plants.
This rosemary bush is still well in flower and was still producing nectar on the 19th October for honey bees and the odd carder bee so there are still active colonies of carder bees.
Also Lavendar where it's still in flower
The other place you might try looking is fruiting ivy which is popular with wasps and bees:
However I saw lots of wasps, the odd hornet and quite a few honey bees but not a single bumblebee. There was a red admiral butterfly that returned several times while I was watching, though.
The ivy has been buzzing with insects today, 20th October.
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