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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>Latest bee drawings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again there seems to be a huge amount to report both on the drawings, and the activities of the bees in the garden. For those waiting for an update on the leaf-cutter bees, there is a post coming soon, with many photographs! There are also a few pen and ink drawings of leaf-cutter bees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the leaf cutter bees</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/07/return-of-the-leaf-cutter-bees/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/06/unexpected-hatching/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/05/miner-bees-take-up-residence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/?p=3162</guid>
		<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>Bees in pen and ink: Dip pens</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/05/bees-in-pen-and-ink-dip-pens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my latest drawings of the bees. Earlier posts showed my sketches of  &#8217;bee characters&#8216; as well as some bee drawings using the Rotring Rapidograph. Here I&#8217;m using a dip pen to draw in detail the head of a bee. Dip pen and Indian Ink:     Above: The drawing is from a photograph of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bees in pen and ink: Bee characters</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/04/bees-in-pen-and-ink-bee-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something of a different take on the bees, and probably as far removed from the Rapidograph drawings as I can get. A label:   Above: Back in February I did a couple of quick sketches of bees on labels and cards for a gift. It was just a little sketching, using the same nib I used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bees in pen and ink: Rapidograph</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/04/bees-in-pen-and-ink-rapidograph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to update the blog for some time, to show the drawings I&#8217;ve been doing of bees. I hadn&#8217;t felt there was much to write about, but looking back over the material, I realise I should have updated everything a lot sooner. Since there seems to be too much material for one blog post, I&#8217;ve split it into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dining Room Window and Chair – complete</title>
		<link>http://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2011/04/dining-room-window-and-chair-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dining Room Window and Chair, 2010 At least, more or less complete. There are still a few small, dark clouds I will add lower down near the chair at some point. But I thought I&#8217;d post the drawing as it is now, since a few people have asked me about it. It took months to [...]]]></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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