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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @wild edges  - any idea what this bee might be? New to me.


  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Wool carder bee. The yellow markings are distinctive. They're the ones you see nicking the fluff from mullein and lambs ear plants.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Very cool. She was just by some lambs ears. Hurrah! I wonder if she would be nesting in one of the bee boxes..
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Does anyone else think that bees look angry.......

  • ChivetalkingChivetalking Posts: 2,296


    A leopard slug Limax Maximus raising its family in a water butt.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Is that another euphemism like dropping the kids off at the pool? Cos I think those are poops not babies :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ChivetalkingChivetalking Posts: 2,296
    Oops @wild edges how embarrassing! 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Mary370 said:
    Does anyone else think that bees look angry.......


    Not me.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    edited June 2020
    Not sure what this is, some sort of green soldier fly I think (and an aphid photobombed my photo).
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's a Large White butterfly caterpillar and the eggs are from a parasitic wasp of some kind that have been growing inside it.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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