It’s really bee day out in the garden today - it’s teeming with them, which is amazing. There are swathes of purple toadflax all over as I never pull it up, and it’s very popular right now. I go out for screen breaks as I’m lucky enough to work from home, and it’s always hard to make my way back in on a day like today! #bumblebee#bees#insects#flowers#wildflowers#nature#NaturePhotography#photography#garden
So you’re a red arsed #bumblebee worker. You’ve been working the flowers for hours collecting nectar/pollen. You need a bit of ‘me’ time before you return to the hustle and bustle of the nest…
This particular bumble bee is a queen "Two Form Bumble Bee," although there are other bees with a near identical pattern, and even the queens of this variety have several variations in coloring.
I borrowed a book from my neighbor on identifying bumble bees. She's a detail-oriented person and a lover of gardens and wildlife, but she confessed she was defeated in her attempts to learn to tell one bumble bee from another. After thumbing through the book and reading about the difficulties of identification, I'm defeated, too.
I’m captivated with bees (bumblebees in particular), and could seriously watch them all day long. Capturing images of them hard at work is my new favorite pastime. ❤️
Very busy here on The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland over the past few days so haven’t been able to be here really.
Owe you guys a couple of bee facts.
Till I get them to you here’s a stunning #bumblebee worker rocking some serious pollen baskets foraging on the leek flowers. #bees#bumblebees#nature
A study in Switzerland focusing on two species of #bumblebee commonly found throughout Europe suggests that ‘City Bumblebees’ are smaller but more phenotypically diverse than their ‘Country Bumblebee’ cousins.
For #PollinatorWeek: lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches and two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on 16" x 20" with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.
A super early start allotment watering and strawberry picking. The volunteer poppies growing in a spare bed had an early visitor - a white-tailed bumblebee. #allotment#bumblebee#flowers#sunrise
World Bee Day? This is Bombus hyperboreus. She’s a brood parasite. B. hyperboreus seeks out the hives of B sylvicola or B polaris in the spring. She’ll kill the queen and let the dead queens first generation raise its young. #WorldBeeDay#bee#bumblebee#nunavut
It’s world bee day? Okay. Here’s Bombus sylvicola on Prickly Saxifrage. It also sports a couple hive mites near the base of its left wing. #WorldBeeDay#Nunavut#bee#bumblebee
It's #WorldBeeDay! I love bees, especially bumble bees. I worked for a beekeeper for one full year, so I got to do every seasonal activity of beekeeping. Each time I witnessed bees emerging from the hive, I cheered them on: "Go bees, go!"
Yes, I am a nerd for nature.
Stop using pesticides and rip out that environmental abomination you call a lawn. This photo of a Vosnesensky Bumble bee is from my lawn-free yard.