Why do my simple concepts always turn out more difficult?? Planning this all week for Ross' essentials-theme.
Plants are essential to life and the bees, especially the wild bees, are essential for pollination of flowering plants.
In Europe the wild bee populations are plummeting; European honey bees (used in the Antipodes and N America to pollinate vast acres of crops) are being decimated by disease compounded by lack of genetic variation.
For more info on the Humble Bumble Bee and other wild bees I urge you to read any of Dave Goulson's books. He's a real bee-ologist and is very concerned about our bees in the UK and worldwide. He set up the Bumble Bee Conservation Trust .
@megpicatilly it crawled through the grass to climb into the flower!! @robz it's a really big crop! Lucky to be in focus @joysabin many thanks Joy @amyk only macro due to ginormous crop, thank you ;) @wendyfrost I'm astounded at the details I captured, absolute fluke! @ricardo17 many thanks - fluke not skill!!! @rjb71 took ages to think up something witty! @linnypinny not really, it's a mega crop that didn't pixelate, fluke!!! @carole_sandford thank you, great to see insects out in the sunshine @suesouthwood thanks, zoomed in max and massive crop @quietpurplehaze :) thank you @ludwigsdiana his books are very interesting, I think in Sting in the Tail' he visits SA. @mittens thank you, fluke and clever camera?! @gillian1912 helped that sun shining too, thank you @bill_fe they are, along with so many other insects!! Thanks Bill.
Thank you all for taking time to comment on my humble bumble bee, she's chuffed to have been on pp for a little while.
@robz it's a really big crop! Lucky to be in focus
@joysabin many thanks Joy
@amyk only macro due to ginormous crop, thank you ;)
@wendyfrost I'm astounded at the details I captured, absolute fluke!
@ricardo17 many thanks - fluke not skill!!!
@rjb71 took ages to think up something witty!
@linnypinny not really, it's a mega crop that didn't pixelate, fluke!!!
@carole_sandford thank you, great to see insects out in the sunshine
@suesouthwood thanks, zoomed in max and massive crop
@quietpurplehaze :) thank you
@ludwigsdiana his books are very interesting, I think in Sting in the Tail' he visits SA.
@mittens thank you, fluke and clever camera?!
@gillian1912 helped that sun shining too, thank you
@bill_fe they are, along with so many other insects!! Thanks Bill.
Thank you all for taking time to comment on my humble bumble bee, she's chuffed to have been on pp for a little while.