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		<title>A summer with the leafcutters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to report that this year there have been up to three leafcutters at any one time nesting in the bee houses, which is a huge improvement on the situation last year where no bees nested at all! I think it likely that this is down to having moved the bee houses to a better location on a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the leaf cutter bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember that last year I had very little success with my solitary bee houses, and was surprised when a leaf cutter bee emerged from one of the old sealed tubes a few weeks ago. I put the lack of nesting last year down to the boxes being sited on my wobbly decking, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected hatching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;ve been very busy drawing my ink bees and learning how to photograph insects! I have quite a bit to update, as ever, but for now I thought I&#8217;d report on an unexpected hatching at the leafcutter bee nests. After the leaf cutter bees hatched last year, there was just a little interest in the nests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miner bees take up residence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote earlier in the year about miner bees mating in the bamboo, and wondered whether they would move in to the garden to dig their nests. At the end of that previous post you may have seen that yes, they began to colonise some of the ground where I had seen a &#8216;mysterious hole&#8217;! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About the bees II</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/04/about-the-bees-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little update following on from Monday&#8217;s post about the bee activity in the garden. As the weather has continued mostly dry and warm, and getting drier and warmer, there has been more bee activity in the bamboo, with a number of solitary bees flying and mating. I have also been able to identify the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About the bees I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d update with some news about the bees &#8211; both those in the garden, and on my drawing table. However, as this post became quite long in the writing, I have decided to put the new drawings into a separate blog post (coming soon). Improving the solitary bee houses:    Late last month I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This year&#8217;s bees emerging.</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2010/06/this-years-bees-emerging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a little update to show you what&#8217;s happening with the leaf-cutter bees at the moment. I think the bees are a little later than usual this year, but they have finally been hatching out over the past week. On the left is a bee coming out of its tube, while on the right is a newly-hatched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for my hedgehog&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For latest news, scroll to bottom of post. I am still wondering whether or not my hedgehog made it through this very hard winter. I know that they generally don’t live very long lives, and that my hedgehog was probably at least two years old, but I am still hopeful of seeing him again. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little hedgehog update</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2009/11/a-little-hedgehog-update-encouraging-hedgehogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in my earlier post on the hedgehog, he has settled into his new home right outside my back door. While there were a few nights last week when I didn&#8217;t see the little fellow and thought he may have gone for his big winter sleep, he has been up and about as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedgehog moves house</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2009/10/hedgehog-moves-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer (2008) I was very surprised to see a young hedgehog quite happily bumbling around my garden in broad daylight. I was so surprised the first time it happened I didn&#8217;t even have time to reach for my camera, but the second time I managed to take a video of him eating some cat food, which [...]]]></description>
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