I’ve written quite a lot about bees on this blog, and in particular the threat of neonicotinoid pesticides to which, researchers suggest, bees become addicted (see Bee-ing Bee-Minded), so I am hugely pleased to find so many bees feeding on my untainted raspberry flowers. Nothing like the sound of happy, busy bees and the sight of all those raspberries in the making. Thank you bees.
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Tish Farrell 
With bees never resting it is remarkable how well you captured them. Great shots, Tish!
Hip hip hoo ray for the bees!
Rah, rah, rah! 🙂
I absolutely love closeups of insects. These busy bees are getting in their tastes before we do. In some of the shots, they look like part of the flower. Great shots.
Many thanks. They’re speedy little critters when it comes to trying take a pic.
That’s not obvious in your photos. Looks like they posed for you!
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Okay.. reblogged.
And, love your title. I intend to share this a bit later in the day so it isn’t so close in time to your posting. Perhaps it will draw a different audience of those looking at notifications. So much of what is being legislated does not take the future into account. You make very important points.
Many thanks. The more people know the better.
I am glad I live in the absolutely organic valley of valleys. It isn’t organic for any special reason … except for the water. We are all terrified of polluting our aquifer and wells that no one — at least none of the farmers although we have a few exceptionally stupid home-owners — uses fertilizers other than horse dung, which remains extremely popular. None of our local horse farms ever have any leftovers. The bees love everything I grow and it is certainly untainted. Whatever else is wrong with it, it’s full of bees and garter snakes and some very weird looking bugs and I just ignore all of them. Let the insects fight their own wars. I’m just here for the exhibit.
Wonderful. Live and let live, humans and wildlife together.
Long may your bees thrive, Tish!
I’ll pass on your good wishes. They like to know things, at least according to Mary Webb they do 🙂
Mary Webb?
Precious Bane – another Virago classic 🙂
Ah! One I never read
Reblogged this on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown and commented:
Hard to exaggerate the importance of bees as pollinators. No pollen, no food. Even cattle, chickens and other providers of our daily meat depend on plants for food!
Glad to see the bees are coming back this year.
I don’t think this is true overall. We’re lucky here in Shropshire. It’s an agricultural county, but there are plenty of areas and wild places that don’t get sprayed with chemicals.
I love watching bees and bumblebees at work! So happy for you that your raspberries are taken good care of! 😄🌼🐝
Little garden wizards!
Indeed they are!
How wonderful to see so many bees. It is such a worry to think of them all dying. It’s good to know they are attracted to raspberries.
Loads in the garden too. At the moment they love the alliums and the last of the columbines and the foxgloves.
Ah good. I planted foxgloves last week. 🙂
We have a swarm resting in one of our oak trees. They come and go about every two years. The swarm is smaller this year. It make me sad and angry. Thank you for the lovely pictures.
I can well understand your sadness and anger – to actually see for yourself the evidence of bee decline. Thanks for this telling comment.
I always love seeing bees around my little garden or anywhere else, for that matter. Your title had me chuckling even before I read the post, with which I completely agree.
janet
We do need to be kind to them. Glad this also raised a smile.
Lovely to see the bees, bums and all. I have had some big ones visiting the self-seeded foxgloves in the garden. If only I could grow to love slugs and snails…
It’s fascinating watching bees pop inside the foxglove flowers. As to S & S, I was moving the stack of buckets and big pots that have been outside my polytunnel all winter, and shock-horror, there were a zillion roosting there – all colours and sizes. So much for hoping the cold weather might deplete the hordes.
They have a nasty habit of finding somewhere to hide. Luckily you had a bucket on hand to drown the critters!! Having got a photo first, of course 😀
Oooo, no. No photo. Too busy screaming and flinging buckets about. I never thought of drowning them. Duh!
Beautiful sight to see! I love the bees 🌞
They make us smile 🙂
This is the time for your own bee hive
Now that’s a thought. Raspberry flower honey.
Bee bums are the best bums! 😀
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