Why are there so many Bees at sea?

[Sharkx]

Even several miles from land, I see loads of Bees flying around the boat, and sometimes landing to have a rest.

Anyone else wondered why?

 

[Croak]

I have.

 

[TopDonkey]

I get the same but with flies, i came across a swarm of a few thousand or so and they followed me at 10 knots for hours, this has happened 3 times now and i was a good few miles offshore when the flies arrived

 

[Croak]

Do you shower?

 

[TopDonkey]

No, i prefer a bath

 

[rib]

if you have yellow showing on your boat thay like that,proberly think your a big pansy

 

[Rick_A]

Blown out to sea.

 

[johnalison]

Insects are amazing. I remember sitting in the cockpit at anchor in 15 knots of wind and watching a butterfly fly past - upwind.

 

[rib]

must of been one well serviced caterpillar

 

[VO5]

Insects do the strangest things....

90 miles north of Bermuda...a butterfly lands on deck.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Inresting.. they make a "Bee" line for us as well. They are probably just checking out the chart plotter to see which way they need to go.

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Bees don't go further than 5 miles looking for food; if there are lots of them, it means that they are "swarming"; that is when the old queen takes most of the old bees and fly for miles to find a new place to build a hive, leaving the old hive to the new queen.

 

[PeterHoare]

Bees/wasps on board

When we were in Turkey last October we had numerous bees and wasps come on board when we were moored or anchored.

I eventually worked out that they were looking for fresh water, so ran the tap for a few seconds to leave a drop of water hanging off the spout whenever one started flying around the cabin. They immediately flew to the tap, drank the drop and flew away without bothering us further, apart from having to reach out to run the tap regularly, but it was fun to watch.

 

[Croak]

Bees don't go further than 5 miles looking for food; if there are lots of them, it means that they are "swarming"; that is when the old queen takes most of the old bees and fly for miles to find a new place to build a hive, leaving the old hive to the new queen.

The ones we see are bumble bees. I always wonder if we are on their flightpath, or they have targeted us.

 

[pampas]

Have noticed over many years,especially with off shore winds and sunny days, Bumble bees that land onboard must be collecting Pollen as ,if you look carefully, they seem stack the pollen around their furry legs, then fly off up wind. Well thats my observations.

 

[Lady Campanula]

I understand there are about 250 species of bees found in/around the UK. They're important to the propagation of our crops and flowers, but are in serious decline.

If you - or the kids - are stuck for something new to do on passage, and you have a bee identification chartlet tucked away, these nice bee conservation people would like to know what bees you encounter, where and when.

Er, same thing with whales and dolphins, but different bunch of conservatories....

 

[Beadle]

Dunno about Bees

But we occasionally suffered swarms of flies well offshore between Scarborough and the Tees.

Apparently its a lee wave from the Nth York Moors - picks em up and dumps them mile or two out to sea.

 

[kunyang]

http://www.itv.com/beegees/

They get everywhere

 

[RichardS]

When we were in Turkey last October we had numerous bees and wasps come on board when we were moored or anchored.

I eventually worked out that they were looking for fresh water, so ran the tap for a few seconds to leave a drop of water hanging off the spout whenever one started flying around the cabin. They immediately flew to the tap, drank the drop and flew away without bothering us further, apart from having to reach out to run the tap regularly, but it was fun to watch.

We had exactly the same experience in the evening off St Klements island in Croatia. We left the galley tap just cracked open with a very slow drip and a procession of wasps flew into the boat and went straight to the tap, had a drink, and then flew off. We ate our barbeque on the back of the boat and they left us completely alone.

Richard

 

[al.carpenter]

containers

Hi all,
Having been a marine surveyor for a while a long time ago, I quite often found wasps and bee hives IN containers that had been standing on parks for a long time before being loaded on CSs and probably that EN ROUTE they left the ship through air vents to try and find food?????