Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Bees and Chinese/garlic Chives

Nearing the end of summer, the Chinese/garlic chive begin to flower in my herb garden.  Chives are extremely attractive to bees and have plenty of pollen in their flowers. What a joy to watch these bumblebees flit from flower to flower gathering pollen.
This lady is filling her pollen basket (orange mass on her leg) with pollen.




Hard working bumblebee feasting on the white flowers of my Chinese/garlic chives.