Did anyone have any ideas what the little bee was doing in the photos from two weeks ago?
Bees sometimes gather a number of different materials from leaves, including water, resin or sap. Because the plant is infested with lace bugs, which produce honeydew like aphids, I suspect this bee was licking honeydew from the brittlebush leaf. It is likely an example of an insect often considered to be a pest supplying the needs of an insect considered to be beneficial. Isn’t nature wonderfully complex?
When I popped out to take a photograph for Bug of the Week, I really didn’t expect to find much new.
But then I spotted this little solitary bee on a leaf.
It appeared to be doing something with its mouthparts on the leaf.
Do you have any idea what it might be doing? I’ll give you a hint, the plant is a brittlebush.
Yesterday was a lovely day for a walk through a botanical garden. It’s enough to make one wax poetic.
Flowers dressing up with a bee for jewelry.
The warm brown seed beetle looks rather like the seed it was born inside.
Another kind of green malachite attracts your eye.
Captivating captive beauties.
Feels like we need some words of wisdom today. How about:
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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