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Buzz . the 20th May is World Bee Day ☺

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Michael Ixer ● 2364d7 Comments

Lovely, lovely bees!  Thank you for such fantastic photographs, Michael. 

Ivonne Holliday ● 2364d

Congratulations on your collection of bee pics.  I've spent time taking pics of bees too but I couldn't in a month of Sundays organise or print them.  Apart from the beauty of bumbles and starting to appreciate their different coloured stripes, there is their behaviour.  I loved the headfirst dive of the black bee into the carnation?  and trying to work out how to get into the jam jar made me laugh.  My three year old grandson and I love watching them disappear completely into foxgloves.  I also made a mini vid of a bee having a wash and brush up in the middle of a flower.  It's great to be able to see and have another look in close up at what they are doing.I was also interested in Martha Carney's piece on radio about not cutting your lawn so short that you cut off all the flowers that the bees love to feed from.  I also have a thing about all the routine shaving and 'landscaping' of flowering shrubs so they don't get to flower and the bees don't get to feed and collect pollen from them.  The early flowering shrub honeysuckle gets really busy with bees and is a scented joy in spring.

Philippa Bond ● 2364d

Philippa, I find bees and other insects - well, all "bugs" fascinating; plus, bees particularly are vital for human survival, who else will pollinate our food sources? I'm not a very enthusiasts gardener so our garden is usually fairly bug friendly 🙂 Bees can be difficult to photograph, they will keep flitting from flower to flower ... I've numerous pics of just flowers or a black & yellow blur ...I Find Flickr a good site for organising images, and if you've not too many images I think there's still a free option; also Facebook has an "album" option but I find that a bit messy to use; I've not tried any of the other sites. I'm currently consolidating images from a number of disparate sources into Dropbox as a backup. Then there's the few hundred 35mm pictures to scan ...

Michael Ixer ● 2364d

Sad t say i can't seem to download  your lovely pics Michael. As to posting the elsewhere have you tried Instagram?

Lucille Grant ● 2364d

For anyone interested in bees and bugs,  I thoroughly recommend volunteering in the Royal Parks' "Mission Invertebrate" scheme.  Really well organised and great fun.

Chantal Blake-Milton ● 2364d

Lucille. This seems to be a compatibility issue with the old and new interfaces. I'm pasting these as embedded links in the new interface. Clicking on that in the new interface appears to work - at least it does when I test it! However, in the old interface it seems to fail. However, if you select an option to open it in a new tab that seems to work on the old interface. (In Windows right click on the link and you should get this as one of the options, on Android phones/tabletrs instead of tapping on the link press until you get a list of options which should include opening in another tab. I can't test iPhone/iPad OSs at the moment but probably similar to Android.) Alteratively, select the option to copy link address then paste into the browser address line, or even manually copy/paste the text of the link? I hope one of those works 🙂,

Michael Ixer ● 2363d

I've been looking online at a company that sells "Bee Bombs", little blocks of wildflower seeds.  Anyone tried them before, do they grow well?  Thinking of scattering them around near my front door.

Bunny Payne ● 2363d