Friday 24 May 2019

A Very Tiny Bee

So, I'm keeping an eye out constantly on the dog roses to see who is having a feed today; Friday's visitor was a very very tiny bee, no idea what species, that was literally rolling around in the pollen.

Of course there were many other bees around, lots of tree bumbles in particular, a few white / buff tails. All have very heavy pollen baskets, these flowers really must be a rich source.

So my little wildflower meadow has, after three years, sort of finally produced results. We have a decent carpet of birds foot trefoil with some vetch and buttercups thrown in. A few ox eye daisies have appeared.

It's not amazing, but red tailed bumbles in particular are feeding in numbers, so it is doing the job I intended.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 24.05.19






4 comments:

  1. Love Birds' Foot Trefoil - or Ladies Fingers as we called it as kids.

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  2. well done on persevering with your meadow, from little acorns,and all that....

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  3. Thank you all for commenting, different sort of day today

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