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A hive of Small Garden Bumble Bees has established itself in a disused Wren's nesting box under a honeysuckle bush in our garden. This year the wrens are absent, in fact I've seen only one all winter. |
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The bees are very shy and I have to tap the nest to encourage them to appear. After much buzzing they emerge! |
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They keep busy all day collecting pollen from a rose bush a few meters from the hive. |
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This rose is one of my favourites but it blooms for only about two or three weeks a year. We are however compensated by the gift of beautiful oval pendulous fruits which progress from luscious green to scarlet throughout the season. |
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The bees flit so quickly from flower to flower that I find it difficult to follow their movements. |
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Oil painting titled SUMMER by Jason Jon. |
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Midsummer Moon |
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