The bees are getting busy!

[juilly]

Thought I'd share a few pictures of the bees that are floating around our tree!

They made me smile with all their frantic buzzing

[Mo]

Yes, I was standing by my tall berberis and it was so noisy. Was there some poem that said 'bee-loud'.

[Richard]

Lovely Juilly.

We have some down the Lane which is good.

Bad news is I found a Hornet about half the size of my thumb in the front garden yesterday.

Hope it's not one of those French Killer one's !!

Richard

[fabindia]

Not sure about the other pictures but I am not sure that the last picture is of a bee but is possibly a hover fly.

Bees have shorter wings, longer antennae, different eyes and hairy legs, especially back legs where they have a specialist structure of hairs that form the pollen basket. That is not to say however that hover flies are not important pollinators, they certainly are - and they don't sting which is good for us!

Here's a picture of a honey bee we took last year.