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A raspberry and a blueberry from the bees
Today’s harvest was brought to you by the bees. Honeybees and small carpenter bees in the raspberries. Bumblebees, too, but they’re too fast for me to get a good picture. I caught a Lasioglossum bee in the flowerhead of one … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, garden
Tagged bees, blueberries, bumblebee, Ceratina, honeybee, Lasioglossum, National Pollinator Week, raspberries, strawberries, syrphid fly, Toxomerus
Meanwhile, on the ground
What I consider my ground covers are doing their thing. Since I want the violets where they are, they’re not weeds, they’re wildflowers. The ajuga come from a six pack that I planted years ago, and after much coddling are … Continue reading
Bees in the berries
The bees are busy in the berries. Lots of bumblebees rush from flower to flower in the raspberries. This one seems to be trying to choose between a berry in progress and a fresh flower. So many berries, so little … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrena, bees, bumblebee, Ceratina, raspberries, strawberries
Bees in the strawberries
I’m seeing tiny bees everywhere, on the columbines, on the buttercups, on the strawberry flowers. Some are definitely bees when I look closer. One had long antennae and a striped abdomen. One was carrying bright yellow saddlebags of pollen. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, garden
Tagged bees, strawberries
Cinco de flores
Flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, What more is there to say?
