Nature and Gardening @beehaw.org flora_explora @beehaw.org 6 mo. ago

My garden is full of bees! So many Osmia, Andrena and Bombus individuals everywhere ♥

(Description: Image of Osmia bicornis (I think) chilling on a leaf and cleaning itself.)

15 comments

That's so cool!

Thank you for doing your small part to keep them going. I live in a condo building but would definitely have a wild yard if I were a traditional homeowner.
- Haha, by being so depressed that I cannot do a lot in my garden even if I wanted to xD But jokes aside, I really love having a wild garden and taking pictures of everything. I don't like cultivated plants all that much.
  
  I'm sorry to hear of the depression, but glad you found a good way to cope with it. Depression's hard.
Yay Solitary Bees!! It’s still early for my area.
Now I understand why the sock company is called Bombas lol.
That's awesome. Bees scare me to death. I often see them in my backyard and run away from them. Lol When do they attack? What if they built their hive in your garden? Don't they start attacking then?
- LoL, no, solitary bees are all about pollinating, and even that they do delicately. And they don’t build hives. Nor do they make honey.
  
  Ooohh, can you tell I don't know anything about bees? Lol Thank you
- Bees will typically leave you bee (ha) if you leave them alone.
  
  It's wasps that are assholes.
  
  I got stung by 3 of them once and it hurt bad. I'd learned from my late mother to wash an insects bite/sting right away so it doesn't swell(I think it relates to washing off whatever chemicals they release onto the skin when they sting you). So I immediately washed their stings and they didn't swell. It was painful, though.
- Haha, these ones are so shy I have problems taking pictures of them. I get that people are scared by insects and especially anything wasp/beelike. But there is really no need to :)

You've viewed 15 comments.