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Campanula bee - for Morgana

By Bonkersbon

5 Jul, 2009
20 likes

Comments on this photo

Jacque

Great Photo Jane/Ray :)

5 Jul, 2009

Morgana

Lovely shot and well spotted

5 Jul, 2009

Sanbaz

do you sedate them first, always a blur when i try lol

5 Jul, 2009

Jacque

U need to be Patient San & ready 2 snap m :)

5 Jul, 2009

Toto

Great pic. He looks well loaded.

6 Jul, 2009

Bonkersbon

Thanks all.
Sanbaz...Lol !
Toto...great to see all that pollen being collected !

6 Jul, 2009

Terratoonie

Pretty pic BB :o)

8 Jul, 2009

Bonkersbon

Thanks TT !

8 Jul, 2009

Flcrazy

Looks like this poor evil has been working overtime, great close-up !

12 Jul, 2009

Bonkersbon

Thanks Flower ..sadly they need to as numbers of them been dropping alarmingly hopefully a better summer will see them recover.

12 Jul, 2009

Flcrazy

Any specific reason for the drop off in number of your bumble bees Bonkers,( that was a mouth full...lol). That's a problem I've never had to deal with here in my area. We have had a drop off in our native honeybee though and you would be surprised at the culpit. Japanese hornets here, are notorious for taking over honeybee nests in hollowed out trees. It's an awful thing to witness, nothing you can do but watch as hundreds of huge hornets come in and wipe out a colony of tens of thousands of honeybees in the matter of a couple of hours. These hornets are 5 times larger than our honeybees, our bees just don't stand a chance.

12 Jul, 2009