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Bumble bees take a break in my yard

Posted by Mike Klassen on July 18, 2009 in Zeitgeist

A Flickr slideshow of bees taking a break in my yard

The summer cooled down a bit, not much, but the clouds came in for a few days in Vancouver and the hot sunny weather became a little cool (< 20 degrees C).

What resulted was a little unusual. My flower garden, which regularly gets many bumble bees and honey bees visiting the lavender and sage and other assorted annuals and cone flowers, had lots of bees just taking a rest.

Each day at least a dozen of them would camp out for a half hour on the top railing on our front deck. When the warm weather returned, they stopped taking rest breaks.

I liked that these lovely little workers decided to take a rest stop at our place.

Tagged: bumble bees, gardening, summer in vancouver

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