Bees! Teeny Weeny Aussie Bees!!

Coming {in for a} Landing

"When the dog bites. When the bee stings.  

When I'm feeling sad.  

I'm simply remember 

my favorite things 

and then I don't feel so bad"

~Oscar Hammerstein~

Flowers {with} Bees

iSunflower

 

I am having so much fun with these sunflowers ! 

I think they are almost ready to harvest ! I can't wait for that time to come !

In the meantime though, the bees are still enjoying them ...

Corner View {October}

Corner View this week is 'October' ...

I know last week's photo was of a bee but October in Australia means SPRING is here ! And with spring comes flowers and with flowers comes bees !  Stay with me though because these are not your normal bees !  These are Australian Native Bees !  They are much smaller than normal bees.  I think they are adorable !  And I just learned that they don't sting ! 

They love my sunflowers !



Check out yellow pollen on the legs of the little guy below !  Super cool !!
Different to the pink pollen in last weeks photo !



Look how many of them are on this one small sunflower (above) !



Is it only me, or is anyone else fascinated by bees ?

Cornver View {The Last Thing I Learnt}

Corner View this week is 'the last thing I learnt' ...

This is an interesting one. I LOVE to learn. I am always learning !!

So I was wondering what would be the last thing I learned before I wrote this post and then this afternoon I was outside in the garden, taking photos of birds and flowers and I noticed that the pollen on this bees legs was PINK ! I've never seen that before, usually it's orange ! I started to wonder if the pollen color had to do with the color flower they were getting their pollen from and then it would make sense that they collected different colors ! Plus, they were on the coriander flowers and I'd noticed that some of them had turned pink !

I came in and googled it and sure enough ... the pollen on their legs is due to the color of the 'pollen source' ...

How cool is that ??

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I've been absent from Corner View for a while ... I'm looking forward to seeing what the last thing everyone else learned was !