(Bumble)bees, (lady)birds and flowers of the cemetery

23 June 2013. To the cemetery. Lady’s glove flowers near the entrance attract many insects.

Including buff-tailed bumblebees and garden bumblebees.

We hear great spotted woodpecker and magpie calls.

A male chaffinch sings, and lands on a tombstone.

A bit further, moss with spore capsules.

Rhododendrons are flowering, and attracting pollinating insects, as well. Including tree bumblebees.

Close to the lady’s gloves, a white flowering plant is nearly finished; but it still attracts a honeybee collecting nectar …

and a hoverfly.

Finally, back to the lady’s gloves; which attract a ladybird.

E.U. bans another bee-killing insecticide: here.

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