Just seen a Bombus hypnorum worker resting on a Magnolia on a rather damp afternoon. This very distinctive recent colonist from Europe was first noted in the garden last year when a queen appeared for a few weeks in May. She would disappear through a hole in the mortar of the house brickwork and I assume she was looking to nest, but nothing came of it, although workers were seen nectaring on bramble flowers later in the summer. This spring, another queen appeared early in the year and kept going through an external air brick and finding its way into the lounge - after three or four times of this happening, I decided it was best to relocate her. The attached photo is the queen from 2008 sunning itself on the house wall.
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