I love the bumblebees. We have the ones like yours and the yellow and brown ones. They visit the heather in the spring when the honeybees wouldn't dream of coming out. Bumblebees always make me think of spring and summer even when they hum around on a cloudy day. Great pictures! You really got her to poise for you.
Wow. He's big. We have bumble bees as well as the littler bees that I guess are honeybees. Hmm. I realize I know very little about bees... What are your bees like Eileen?
If that is like the ones we have here they sure can mess up a wooden structure. The ones we have around here bore little holes in the 2 x 4's on my chicken house. It doesn't seem like much but when you get hundreds of little holes it weakens the structure. We kill all we can. We have plenty of honeybees so we are ok with the pollination.
hOLY HECK IS THE BEE HUGE. TEXAS STYLE I GUESS..LOL The pansies do well there too.. Great shots. bali
what beautiful photos, here in the uk they are asking you to spend one hour in your garden seeing how many bumble bees you see and logging the different species/colours there are and with your postcode they will be able to say how the population of bumble bees are doing.
That is one Texas sized bumblebee! Bet he made lots of noise flying around. And he had to check everything out!
I seen one of our bumble bees today, an it was fatter than normal also. No sure if it was that big ,but it was bigger....... Must be something in the air??????
It looks like the ones we call hummingbird bees here and I hate the carpenter bees all they do is drill holes in the wood they won't sting and the hummer ones won't sting either did your bee have a long beak? if so it was a hummer
