Hairy Footed Flower Bee – Page 5 – Jill Orme Photography

8 May 2023

Huddle

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

The b***** b****** w****** – sorry, weather – has gone off again. Our wild garden is now in the state of acute bogginess it normally only achieves around midwinter, and the supposedly higher and dryer bits aren’t much better. I’m … Continued

5 May 2023

Crashed

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I must be honest – when I first saw him, I thought he was dead. If you check out my second photo, you’ll probably see why: even for a bee, this is an absurd sleeping position, especially as he appears … Continued

26 Apr 2023

Triumph

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I’m not sure whether he was waving his claws over his head in triumph to annoy the other old guys, or singing If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands, but either way he was clearly pretty pleased … Continued

14 Apr 2023

Multitasking

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

So it’s not only women who can do two things at once. I saw this hairy-footed flower bee fly into the dead-nettle patch, and stood at the edge of the flower bed, camera poised, waiting for him to come back … Continued

12 Apr 2023

Same old…

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

After managing to photograph one of the biggest flying creatures in the world yesterday, today I was back in the garden with the mini-beasts. Not that there were many mini-beasts around. By 10am a cold but cheerful dawn had given … Continued

29 Mar 2023

Sluggish

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Gastropods, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It was another dreary, wet morning, though warmer than yesterday and without the biting wind. R and I were both grumpy about this interruption to the onset of spring, when it had only just about got started, so we did … Continued

24 Mar 2023

Guardian

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I did far too much gardening today, tidying one of the long borders in the back garden and the soft fruit bed in the secret garden. I then snapped and snarled at R when he got home from running errands, … Continued

22 Mar 2023

Expert

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

There are now around a dozen male hairy-footed flower bees in the garden, and competition between them is getting fierce. Yesterday I saw the first female of the year, though sadly I spotted her at the exact moment when she … Continued

19 Mar 2023

Plump

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

“Can you say “happy Mothers’ Day” to Grandma?” said L in a stage whisper. “I got choklit ice cream,” said the Boy Wonder, appearing briefly from behind an enormous cone, and demonstrating that he did indeed have choklit ice cream, … Continued

17 Mar 2023

Feather-footed

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I don’t know why the Romans felt that they needed a word to describe the state of being feather-footed, but apparently they did, and ‘plumipes’ was it. ‘Anthophora’, I think, is a Greek term for flowering plants. So this little … Continued