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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[katybeth]

Huh. I don't know what "bear" would be.

I've seen honeybees, but now that you mention it, not all that many. Many more yellowjackets, other wasps, and some bumblebees.

I've been told that bumblebees really are soft, but I've never had the courage to pet one.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Bear-walking is on all fours, upside-down from crab-walking, I believe. Must be a quadrathlon.

There's a smallish bee with a lot of black on it -- dunno its name -- that I figured was the local replacement for the honeybee. Need a bee key.

I wonder how you talk the bumblebee into holding still.

[katybeth]

> I wonder how you talk the bumblebee into holding still.

They sit fairly still while they're on flowers. Not for very long, though.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

The ones at Deb's were barely moving. A person could go visit them.

[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.