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Gardening

Farmer-Rick

(10,170 posts)

2. I love bumblebees

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 10:04 AM

Oct 2021

They come out early spring and buzz around your head like they are bigger than they really are.

They do a great job with Maypops or the passion flower. Carpenter bumblebees specifically pollinates the TN passion flower. But so many people kill them because they like to drill holes in wood the wild passion flower is slowly disappearing here.

I also find them in late fall on my saffron flowers stumbling around, drunk on the nectar. They are kind of funny to watch.

Thanks for posting this.

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About Bumble Bees [View all] Botany Oct 2021 OP

thanks for this. just shared it mopinko Oct 2021 #1

FYI Wild Bee Conservation / A home grown national park Botany Oct 2021 #3

i really need to get around to making a bee hotel. mopinko Oct 2021 #5

You don't need to keep honey bees to have good pollination .... native pollinators (wasps, bees, ... Botany Oct 2021 #6

yeah, i think i will have to. unless i can get some goats in here. mopinko Oct 2021 #8

Round up doesn't really work on thistle. It just burns the plant and maybe the top few inches of .. Botany Oct 2021 #9

yeah, i agree. mopinko Oct 2021 #10

The best course is to get the goats to munch the thistle and when they are gone the thistle .... Botany Oct 2021 #11

thanks. mopinko Oct 2021 #12

I love bumblebees Farmer-Rick Oct 2021 #2

I love to watch bumble bees "buzz pollinate"* VA Bluebells in the early spring Botany Oct 2021 #4

Support Project Wingspan WestMichRad Oct 2021 #7