Some kind of nest

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Hi.

Can anyone help identify this mass under my floorboards. Looks like some kind of nest. Complete with eggshells or cocoons or something...

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Whatever it is appears to be dead, but I am curious...!

Thanks!
 
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OMG the face huggers have left the eggs :eek: They will be hiding in your roof ........or it could be squirrels and the shucks of hazelnuts, and they used that crappy hair felt lagging on your pipes - good idea to cover the pipe lagging with some 22mm split lagging over the existing hair felt (y)
 
Hmmm... Not sure where (IF) the irony stopped. This isn't a squirrel hazelnut hoard. the husks of the shells are too thin.

Although, maybe that IS why that section of pipe has no insulation.
 
ummm the dead bumblebee is probably the give away, now let me think.
Sorry for being facetious, but yes that's what they do, they don't make a paper nest like wasps but usually find a small enclosed space to set up a colony inside.
 
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Yuck! There's a bee there though I thought they make the honey comb? I found a mumified bird under my floorboards in my top floor flat. Not sure how it got there though seems like a place to find lots of bad stuff.
 
ummm the dead bumblebee is probably the give away, now let me think.
Sorry for being facetious, but yes that's what they do, they don't make a paper nest like wasps but usually find a small enclosed space to set up a colony inside.

I'm not convinced. Any bee nests I've seen are usually sort of solid on the outside and look like a whipped ice-cream cone, or else they're honeycombs. It think this nest was dead a long time before the bee in the photo. It's a red herring.
 
I'm not convinced. Any bee nests I've seen are usually sort of solid on the outside and look like a whipped ice-cream cone, or else they're honeycombs. It think this nest was dead a long time before the bee in the photo. It's a red herring.
Well you ain't seen a bumble bee nest then, they build individual cells for each egg. I have accidently dug a couple up and can tell you 100% that is a bumble bee nest
 
chappers said:
Well you ain't seen a bumble bee nest then, they build individual cells for each egg.

Sounds authoritative. It's dead anyway. The big question, I suppose: if this was once a good home, are they likely to return?
 
no they only use them for a single season.
Doesn't mean another queen might not use the same space though but not very likely.
The numbers of bees in a bumble nest are much lower than honey bees, so they don't cause any problem anyway. A big bumble bee nest would have about a couple of hundred bees in it with only about half being stinging females, whereas a big honeybee nest would have 10s of thousands of bees in it.
Our bees are in trouble and shouldn't be disturbed really, if you leave them alone they will leave you alone.
 

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