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My textbooks tell me that Apis m. like geranium pratense, the field geranium. We have a perennial, prostrate geranium (described as ordinary, packet geranium by the head gardener), that attracts all the bumble bees, as well as some honey bees. She certainly seems to be slurping up the nectar...

I was prowling around my neighbourhood looking for likely bee-friendly plants to photograph. I found a place with sycamore, horse chestnut, field bean, field poppy and hawthorne all with 100yds of each other (and even saw bees on the hawthorne). However, at the end of the row of trees was the...

Some cheap Kenko extension tubes have turned my standard 50mm lens into a nice little macro jobbie. Works best on a tripod with a rail, but hand-held gives some good results too. All in my garden: 1) camellia blossom in March 2) standing guard on an emerging pear tree blossom, April 3) gulping...

Two questions as a relative novice to pollen imaging. I got a x1000 image of OSR pollen yesterday, just by shaking onto a slide and using immersion oil. The grains are rugby ball shaped, and there's a hint of the netting pattern on the exine that you can see with SEM (I have a EM friend who...