These pictures were taken in Hodnet Hall Gardens last May and remind me that the gardens are coming into bloom and I will soon be able to get out and enjoy them again.
Although there aren’t many flowers out yet I have seen rather a lot of bumble bees, especially in my garden. There have [...]
Archive for the tag 'Bee'
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Spring Colours
20 Comments CherryPie on Apr 26th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Average
A bee and a flower of average size.
Trying to find a photo that might fit this theme left me pondering on the meaning of average; size, height, intelligence, beauty etc etc.
It left me with the thought that average is often used in the context that anything above is exceptional and anything below is sub standard. [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2010
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Back to the Bees
When I shared some interesting facts about bees recenly, Denise pointed me to this online petition to save the honeybee. The petition is calling for the banning of neonicotinoids which is a type of pesticide which was first used in the 1990s which co-insides with when the mass bee disappearances started occurring.
Neonicotinoids work as an [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2009
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It is all About Bees
I am currently reading What on Earth Happened?… In Brief (the planet life and people from the big bang to the present day). It is full of interesting facts and today I learned some interesting facts about bees, I had no idea there were so many different species of bee.
Bees descended from wasps and emerged [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2009
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
21 Comments CherryPie on May 31st 2009
