I posted this in the wrong category so I'll post it here, does anyone know of any way to discourage bees from aattcking ripe nectarines and peaches, they are definitely european honey bees.

James

What do you mean by attacking?
Bees are nectar feeders, when they attack something
they essentially commit suicide and die. Are bees
falling dead off these trees or are the fruit just covered
in bees? If just covered in bees what harm are they
doing?

Very strange.

Maybe James meant "gathering" instead of attacking...Ed Tropical Collector

They aren't bees then as bees do not feed outside the hive except on nectar.
Sounds very much like the European wasp to me which many people
confuse with bees.

Bees don't damage fruit, they must be feeding on moisture in fruit that has been
damaged by something else, they certainly don't honeycomb fruit.
I suggest you get an bee expert to look at this damage as its certainly atypical
behaviour for bees.

i was just wondering if peaches would grow without mulch and just fertiliser and soil, thanks bye

it is quite likely that bees do eat fruit and i think they are after moisture and it might help if you put some bowls of water underneath the trees so that they can get a drink and it is worse if there is not enough flowers around to get the nectar from as they need to get a store up for winter and also could you show us a picture of the bees and fruit and if you want to protect some of the fruit try attaching paper or material bags over the fruit and tying them on to the tree

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf4.html for your information.