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Those big eyes, that great smile...means Spring is here and there will be a lot of flowers to enjoy!
Bee collecting pollen. There is so much we can and should do for our pollinators, from planting native flowers and shrubs, to eliminating the use of pesticides. Please do what you can and encourage others too.
Eastern Carpenter Bee (xylocopa virginica) on an Ox Eye Sunflower (Heliopsis Helianthoides). Also known as 'False Sunflower'. Mary Kistler Stoney memorial flower garden, New Bern, North Carolina
Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera), Derbyshire. The colony is struggling a little in the drought conditions.
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My beloved!*
This little sweetheart bee has been buzzing in curious circles for at least 3 weeks at the Shop!
I loved this little bee!* (NO! I didn't kill it!)
Anyway, it never stopped doing these happy, buzzy little circles in and around the bird bath area?
And it was friendly and curious as all get out! It would go RIGHT UP TO YOU, be IN your face, stop there, just to look at you, then it would go back to it's buzzy little circles?!*
Well I had come to LOVE this little bee and it's happy, happy, energy!*
I found out that it was a Carpenter bee and then I found the hole (nest) in a nearby piece of driftwood.
It would either fly nice with, or push away, others bees that came?
Sometimes it got fresh (bored?) and would literally get up in the face of the near-by ring neck doves that were eating! Needless-to-say, THEY didn't like that!!!
I thought it was especailly sweet that it buzzed customers too!* :) I would tell them about it!* (They probably thought I was nuts!)
It didn't seem to come around much in the mornings, and, I missed it when it wasn't there!
Then today, I went over to put bird seed on the different levels of driftwood (the birds like to eat there) and this little bee was laying on the driftwood half dead? Poo! :(
I carefully gathered him and set him elsewhere and watched him for a short time as his different body parts would stretch and move ever so slightly... I had seen a dragonfly do this before, he was definately, dying...
I called my daughter who is studying wildlife conservation to see if she or any fellow students needed a bee, but she said they were common and they had plenty of bee specimans...
Then I told her I was sad that it wouldn't be buzzing around anymore? She said not to worry because where there was one carpenter bee there would be another one!
She was right! Almost immediately another one came and started circling the area. But, silly as this sounds, this one, doesn't have half, the personality! :(
Farewell, sweet, bee!*
Bumble Bee busy feeding in a Honeysuckle flower. I only noticed the tiny fly after I uploaded this HBBBT!
Sorry for not commenting on many photos tonight but I give up, Flickr seems very slow anyway but my internet connect is rubbish tonight must be the weather or perhaps our B&B guests are watching a movie on their laptop? I did a ping test & I have just 1.38mbps download speed (it's usually about 2). Upload speed 0.13mbps - ridiculously slow.
...and I need to wear my climbing helmet on a simple walk with camera. A week ago Sunday at the end of our trail walk I tripped onto concrete. I have learned to fall and roll, mostly, but did land on my head a bit too hard.
Thus, while taking it slower this week, I'll post this from 29 May, 2018. The date shown on the exif data is wrong. The new camera needed a tiny new battery for the date.
I hope you take care if you're looking up or at birds or bees or composing a landscape photo while walking. Only the lens cap and my head chipped a bit, and we can't replace the head.
This sleepy bumblebee was in the middle of the path in Regent's Park on a cloudy, cold morning. It was in danger of being accidentally crushed as people walked along, so my lovely daughter rescued it to the grass by the path using a sycamore seed! (She is kind, but not brave enough to touch a bee!)