#weidehommel #earlybumblebee #nature

Reprise:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/324075...
#insects #bee #bumblebee #EarlyBumblebee #BombusPratorum #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings

Especially pleased to see my first Early Bumblebee of the year amongst all the Buff-taileds yesterday. #spring #earlybumblebee #bombuspratorum #britishbees #bugsky @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @bumblebeegill.bsky.social

#bombuspratorum #earlybumblebee #wiesenhummel #マツノマルハナバチ #insects #insectphotography #nature #photography #wildlifephotography #nikon #germany

Nice to think my clumps of #pulmonaria are helping this #queen #earlybumblebee start her nest. #bombuspratorum #bumblebee. #savethebees #savethebumblebees.

Early Bumblebee (Bombus Pratorum)

Olympus OM1 and 12-40 Pro Lens at 34mm - iso100 f7.1 1/125s

#photography #wildlifephotography #earlybumblebee #bee #bombusterestris #pollinator #insects

Spiffy:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/337122...

#insects #invertebrates #bee #bumblebee #EarlyBumblebee #BombusPratorum #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #MacroMonday

This was a surprise on #fridaybee #beefriday!
A queen #earlybumblebee #BombusPratorum inside a #daffodil! It’s significantly Warmer in the trumpet but I’ve never seen a #bumblebee feeding on #narcissi??

#Earlybumblebee (Bombus pratorum): tiny, #fluffy, and the first to hit the #spring #flowers. #Queens start solo, build a whole #colony, then retire early. #Nature’s cutest #startup #founder.

Please try to remember that crocus & snowdrops & the vast variety of hybrid daffodils, pretty though they are, are not the real spring markers of our UK native flora ..
these are ..
#Woodanemone #Coltsfoot #LesserCelandine #Dogviolet #EarlyBumblebee

#Wiesenhummel im Beinwellblüten. #Wildbienen
#EarlyBumblebee in comfrey blossoms #wildbees 🐝

An #Earlybumblebee worker exits a flower of the Garlic chives [yes really chives that taste of garlic & great for all those, incl me, who cannot tolerate onion or garlic bulbs 😢] after she did the rounds nectaring on every bloom!
I bet her little breath smells garlicky 😜!
#Allotment #bees

Altogether far better day: bums high in Gorse flowers day in fact, w #Celandine too tempting Honey bees & flies & then an #EarlyBumblebee queen warming herself among the #Dogviolets .. what joy!
#Bluetit chatter above!
Early escape home due to far too many people for this lover of solitude 😊