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Rescue 911
Okay, I’ll admit it. I have a soft spot for honey bees. Today I fished out some thoroughly drenched honey bees from our swimming pool.Indeed, the pool looked like an Olympic meet for Apis mellifera. It appears that while the bees were foraging on the nearby cherry laurel blossoms, they tumbled...
Drenched honey bee gets ready to sip honey from a plastic spoon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee cleaning her tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everybody Out of the Pool
It's raining bumble bees in our pool.Yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii). And honey bees (Apis mellifera), too.While nectaring lavender, catmint, tower of jewels, sedum and other plants, some of the foragers land in our pool. Talk about no depth perception.We fish them out and most...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
Honey Bee
