Late last eve I was relaxing in the backyard under my very mangled-looking palm tree and saw the tiny bees swarming around the little flowers that the tree produces each summer. The tree is due for pruning next month but it may not make it that long before the seeds begin dropping which sucks. All I could do then is pull up the baby trees as they emerge. I pointed the camera straight above me for these photos. 90 degrees and sunny today, sunny and 100 degrees tomorrow which is typical for this time of year. Some like it hot! 😂
There are fewer honeybees about this year. Not so many bumblebees either, though I have seen a few. I do see more of the native pollinators, and try to keep plantings for them. I once read bumblebees are very good at pollinating blueberries.
That’s wonderful that you plant for the bees! I saw a report recently about how the bee population has been falling sharply, not good for humans!
Those are nice looking palm trees. And it’s always good to support the bees 🙂
The bees seem to be dying off, I hope they don’t all die!
You could start selling seedlings. 😉
I thought about that but won’t bother. They look like giant grains of black pepper to me. I have to pull them up daily as they grow very fast.
We have trees like that here. I think they are elm. Our neighbours on either side of us each have a huge one. We get drifts of their seeds in our yard every year. Arghh! 😯
Are they the little helicopter seeds that we played with as kids? 😂
No – they look like big oatmeal. Millions and millions of them.
Oh, sorry. Trees are wonderful! More oxygen, please.
Beeeeee happy. Bees are a good thing. We had not enough of them in our cold, wet, and windy weather while our fruit trees blossomed and now there is no fruit on the early blooming trees.
Wow, I’m sorry that you aren’t getting those yummy fruits, Anneli. There has been plenty of talk about bees dying off everywhere which is a very bad thing for humans. I hope this won’t happen!
I’m finding fewer every year, every after the weather warms up. We need our bees!
We need bees like wee need trees! More oxygen, please? ❤️
Yup!