Monday, August 17, 2015

returning



It has been a long time since I've seen so many honeybees on the corn tassels! Today, they were here in large numbers!



Standing nearby, I could hear the humming of their wings.



I could see the little puffs of pollen falling from the Staminate flowers down to the silk (stigma).



I could see their corbicula or pollen baskets... and thought of the bees returning to their hives with the pollen from my corn.



Welcome back, bees!

3 comments:

judy said...

Hurray!! Welcome back! And welcome back to the bats. I heard them the night I sat out watching meteors and I saw one sleeping in my gable attic vent.

Lisa at Greenbow said...

Oh this is delightful! I hope the bees are hardy and will return next year. You should have some good corn too.

Cathy said...

Oh - so wonderful. The corn here was set back with all the rain - so not as far along as yours.

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