Why the Bumblebee loves Field Scabious

#buff-tailedbumblebee
#fieldscabious
#allotmentwilflife
#grownativeplantsforinects

This Guy did some serious work in my garden yesterday.
#Buff-tailedbumblebee
#Pollinator
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

The #fieldpoppy Papaver rhoeas arrived on these islands w migrant Neolithic or Bronze Age farmers 5500-2500 B.P. & is now part of our native flora.
Unfussy #Buff-tailedbumblebee prefers them to any other exotic poppy, doesn't even sniff the violet show-offs in next-door's plot.
#grownative4insects

The sun did get its hat on & so did #PatchworkCarpenterbee among the Bird's-foot trefoil blooms on my #allotment this a/noon but big #Buff-tailedbumblebee worker w her short tongue did a spot of daylight nectar robbery instead, cutting a hole in the top of the tiny pea flowers 🐝🐝
#GrowNative4bees

Just tried & failed to rescue a stranded #Buff-tailedBumblebee from the pavement. It seemed intent on proving that getting itself into the air really is an aerodynamic impossibility.