Saturday 15 February 2014

Snowdrops...

These photographs were taken on the 6th February just outside our village, in an area that always has a reasonable showing of snowdrops.

What we found interesting was the bee activity...

As regular readers will know, Elizabeth likes to paint Snowdrops...

Now here is a challenge for you Elizabeth how about a Snowdrop with Bee...

Perhaps someone can give us an insight into the type of Bee that is around this early in the season...

3 comments:

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Now you know I'm always up for a challenge!! (E)

Susan said...

It appears to be a Honey Bee Apis mellifera. They'll fly on any reasonable day. You can identify them because they wet the pollen they carry so it looks waxy, not fluffy and dry as on other medium sized brown bees.

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Thanks for the ID, Susan.