River Earn Walk 23/10/11

Lone hardy bee still surviving!

River Earn Walk 18/9/11

A tiny wee bee this one.

Vane Farm 2/9/11

River Earn 19/8/11

Quite a big bumble bee this one.

River Earn 15/8/11



They might not like Japanese Knotweed for taking over things but
the bees certainly do!



Lots of different kinds of bees today, this one had one yellow and one orange stripe.

This was a very small bee.

River Earn 9/8/11

A Bumble bee doing a rock dance!

River Earn Walk 31/7/11

Spot the bee!

A sad lack of buterflies this year but at least there are bees.  B-)

Muthill 25/7/11

River Earn Walk 15/5/11



First bee of the year.

To see the wee bee clearly you may need to click on the photo and then click again to zoom right in.

This photo was taken by my brother Duncan in Australia.  He tells me that it shows the difference in size between an european honey bee and an Australian stingless wild bee (which also makes honey).  I like the sound of stingless honey bees!  I wonder how they stop people pinching the honey if they don't attack them with stings?

This one, again by Duncan taken in Australia, is of a European bee on a native Australian plant called a calistemon or bottle brush which apparently the bees love.

River Earn 5/9/10

River Earn Walk, Crieff, Perthshire.

The silhouette of a wasp.

Thankyou very much to the Bumble Bee Conservation lady http://www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk/index.htm
who sent me the info and leaflet about Bumble bee id.  I think it will take me a long time to get the hang of it.  I don't see one with two white stripes in the choices.

River Earn, Crieff, Perthshire walk 13/8/10

This one was in the garden 12/8/10

This photo was taken September 2009.  There were a load of white bees and I could never work out if it was just because of the pollen from the flowers.  Most were even whiter than this one but extremely difficult to get a photo of because obviously they zoom about from flower to flower.










But going by the bees today August 2010 on the same flowers they have just started to get the white on them.

Scary beasties close up, wasps.

Bees from River Earn walk, Crieff, Perthshire 7/8/10