4 Sep 23

Wakeham

It was a late afternoon spent in the back garden, watching the bees on the Passion Flowers, Ice Plant and Common Ragwort. The Passion Flowers were a great hit with the Honey Bees and Buff-tailed Bumblebees.

A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on a flowering Ice Plant (Hylotelephium spectabile)

Here is another and.........

............one more.

There were also a few Honey Bees and Buff-tailed Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) on the Passion Flowers (Passiflora sp.), where there was...........

...............this odd looking bumblebee.

Two Buff-tailed Bumblebees on a Passion Flower

A Honey Bee and Buff-tailed Bumblebee on a Passion Flower

Honey Bees

A Common Carder Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) resting on the leaf of a Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)

And a Bronze Furrow Bee (Halictus tumulorum) on.........

............Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)

The Common Ragwort was also popular with this Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax) and........

.............an unidentified fly sp.