Bedraggled. Common Carder Bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum, on Vitex agnus-castus, Chaste Tree, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

't Was very wet and windy but I went to the Hortus anyway, a place for all seasons. Always something to see there. Here's a rather bedraggled Bumblebee trying to solicit some energy from Chaste Tree flowers. The berries of the Chaste Tree were known down through the centuries as the source of an anaphrodisiac and an abortifacient; hence its common English name.

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