Time to get the camera out againAnd spread some joy

[enrico]

You have to love a poppy

 

[boywonder]

Apis Mellifera Iberensis foraging on prickly pear cactus.

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

Scabious and white spider

 

[Erichalfbee]

Scabious and white spider

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Cool! A crab spider.

 

[rolande]

Bindweed is flourishing this summer

 

[Erichalfbee]

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Lovely snap. there's quite a bit of it in our hedgerows
That pollen is almost translucent

 

[enrico]

Scabious and white spider

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I have a picture somewhere of one catching a honey bee. I will try and find it.

 

[Vanterrier]

Beautiful in its own way...

See what it is?
K

 

[holmbee]

Seen in Ashstead, Surrey

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

I have a picture somewhere of one catching a honey bee. I will try and find it.

Me too actually. It was efficient and merciless.

 

[Antipodes]

Grass tree.

 

[Moobee]

Bees are enjoying the persicaria

 

[rolande]

 

[Oculentum]

Beautiful in its own way...

See what it is?
K

Venom gland and sting.

 

[user 819]

Bees are enjoying the persicaria
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[user 819]

Bees are enjoying the persicaria
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I have four or five persicarias ' red bistort' at home all from the same root stock ( which I found many years ago on a compost heap with a single stem and it's flowers ) and one huge one adj to my front door facing south, every year without fail it is like a magnet for the bees. It will be busy now until the flowers fade in November a ong perennial attracter for late summer /autumn.
Ecah year when I cut mine right back in Jan /feb to the root stock , I slice it in half with apsade to control it's spread and size. The spare root stock I either sit it on the borders in the garden or go plant bits (urban guerrilla gardening) of the root stock here and there along the tow paths and other quiet areas .
My soil is heavy clay , it take sot it like a duck to water . Simply scrape out a small shallow area and plonk it down firming it in within a couple of years it is awesome and spreading the root stock on the surface.

 

[Moobee]

I have four or five persicarias ' red bistort' at home all from the same root stock ( which I found many years ago on a compost heap with a single stem and it's flowers ) and one huge one adj to my front door facing south, every year without fail it is like a magnet for the bees. It will be busy now until the flowers fade in November a ong perennial attracter for late summer /autumn.
Ecah year when I cut mine right back in Jan /feb to the root stock , I slice it in half with apsade to control it's spread and size. The spare root stock I either sit it on the borders in the garden or go plant bits (urban guerrilla gardening) of the root stock here and there along the tow paths and other quiet areas .
My soil is heavy clay , it take sot it like a duck to water . Simply scrape out a small shallow area and plonk it down firming it in within a couple of years it is awesome and spreading the root stock on the surface.

Brilliant. I might donate some to the local park

 

[E&MBees]

Brilliant. I might donate some to the local park

Just be cautious though RHS lists the following, depending upon variety I think:
This plant is listed on Schedule 9 of the UK Wildlife & Countryside Act (in the Republic of Ireland) as an invasive, non-native species.

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

End of season: beans, mugwort, ragwort, and thistle.

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

... and verbena, lavender, and dog's backside. Thank goodness for gardens.