bees and then bees

[eub]

Japanese snowbell attracts what look like genuine honeybees. I hadn't seen very many of them at all in Seattle.

The black-backed bumblebees don't touch the snowbell. They lurrve the ceanothus alongside.

I'd thought that rosemary had figured out how not to get eaten by insects, but this one was covered with a hundred spittlebug nests.

Oh, I missed a stage on the racetrack -- it's CRAB BEAR BUNY RUN.

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[eub.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I was oblivious to their being bumblebees! I've never seen one of their hives, I don't think.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I did say they were. Not the bumblebees of a child's drawing, giant with black and yellow only, but certainly a kind of bumblebee.

"Hive" seems like it's overstating the case somehow, though technically that's what it was.