i was at Turriefield this morning packing vegetables – salad, onions and spring onions. Not too onerous so I after lunch, I walked down the hill to the bright yellow flowering kalette plant bed as I was told there was lots of bumble bees there.
I love bumble bees and I really wanted to see my first-for-the-year Shetland bumble bee (Bombus muscorum agricolae), which is a distinct sub-species of the Moss Carder bee. They have orange bottoms.
Anyway, I didn’t see one and what bumble bees were there were all very busy flying very quickly on and around the flowers – no one wanted their photograph taken.
I tried very hard to take a good photo but honestly, when the heavens opened and it started to rain in great big drops, I gave up and went back up to the shelter of the shed.
So now I can’t even tell what species of bumble bee I saw – possibly the garden one or white-tailed one.
And apologies for the bad photos – but even though it was a brief shower, it was a determined one.
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Your photos are great! I’m not familiar with that flower but it looks lovely and the bees definitely like it.
Erm! Correction: I’ve just checked; I tried to grow it a couple of years ago but it didn’t come to anything. It’s a cross between kale and sprouts. I think I should try again. (I haven’t seen the flowers, though because mine did not grow.
Lovely bees anyway!
I so understand your dilemma…I get frustrated trying to get certain butterflies and bumblebees in frame and focus quick enough to show how lovely they are. They sure to flit about quickly.
Your native bumblebees are so pretty with their rusty orange bums. We have several varieties here but all are a pretty yellow/black colouring.