On many accounts during my observations, I've heard my purple flowers buzzing with the noise of bees and it lead me to wonder what bees are so busy doing. I have always been around bees but I never understood how wonderful they truly are. For starters there is not just one type of bee flying around. There are sweet, social, the deadly killer bee, the leafcutter and mason bee that can be found in nature. The bees found in my yard are the common bumble bee and honey bee. They are the ones with the hairy chest that carry pollen with their hind legs. With in it self seems like a hard job, but they take the pollen collected and turn it to nectar which is taken by worker bees to full a honey stomach. It takes more then a thousand flowers to fill one honey stomach. It seems bees really are quite the hard workers. For more information on bees visit this website: http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/.
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I didn't know that there was multiple kinds of bees. I thought they were all kind of the same. I love the information wedsite that you added. I now know a lot more about bees.
ReplyDeleteBees sometimes seem to be doing nothing but they're actually doing a lot of work like you described in your blog. I love how you said you could hear your purple flowers buzzing. It was a nice line :)
ReplyDeleteBee's are such interesting creatures. I notice they tend to huddle around my dogs food more than our flowers..
ReplyDeleteI like how you describe the bees and give specific names for them. Keep up the good work.
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