Bumble D'Or

this busy bee has been gathering pollen and filling up his golden pollen basket ( the orange sac on his hind leg)

 

Wiki says - The pollen basket or corbicula is part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees. They use the structure in harvesting pollen and returning it to the nest or hive.

 

And now a little bit about the flower -

The Scottish Thistle - Beautifully Bold!

 

Its physical attributes -

 

The delicately beautiful flower heads,

The viciously sharp thorns,

It's stubborn and tenacious grip on the land,

It's defiant ability to flourish in spite of efforts to remove it

 

We think that they make this plant the perfect Scottish Emblem, don't you?

 

 

 

Done