Don’t come any closer indicates this tree bumblebee (trehumle) by lifting a leg! Known apparently as Disturbance Leg-lift Response (DLR)! The plant is Ligularia japonica. Post Views: 77
Bees / Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Two spring signs
This spring sign today went unnoticed for many years, one of many moth species that has been registered feeding on Salix caprea (goat willow / selje) in spring, […]
Bees / Pollinators
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No shortage of bumblebees
Several species of bumblebee were queuing up for a turn on the Allium pskemense x cepa hybrid in the garden this afternoon: Post Views: 138
Bees / Birds / Community Garden / Seed sowing
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Wagtail at the North Pole
North Pole? Yesterday I worked for the first time this year at the Væres Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) and I are involved. When I […]
Bees / Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Unusual Pollinators
A dark green fritillary (aglaya perlemorvinge) and my second red-tailed bumlebee (steinhumle) on my Buddleja and Clematis vitalba (old man’s beard….not me!) Post Views: 134
Bees / Edientomental / Edimentals / Insects / Onions
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Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden
Yesterday, I registered red-tailed bee / steinhumle (Bombus lapidarius) for the first time at the community garden (Væres Venner), the first time in this part of Trondheim. This […]
Bees / Berries / Pollinators / Snow
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Bumble bee in snow
I didn’t expect to find a bumble bee feeding first thing this morning but I found this Bombus hypnorum (tree bumblebee/trehumle) busy visiting flowers of Ribes divaricatum and […]
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Bumblebees love Allium pskemense
The bumblebees love Allium pskemense, the largest onion in my garden, probably the closest perennial onion tastewise to the common bulb onion Allium cepa and it can be very […]
Bees / Birds / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Insects / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds
Before my D.A. (Dandelion Awakening) I would religiously remove and cut down as many dandelions as I could, but nowadays my garden perennial beds are full of them. […]
Bees / Bulbs
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The bee and the crocus
It’s a beautiful sunny day here and a patch of Crocus tommasianus opened up in response. Making this film, my first 2019 bumble bee emerged from one of […]
Bees / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals / Root crops / Uncategorized
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Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!
The most successful of the half dozen Phyteuma species I’ve tried in my garden has been a plant received as Phyteuma nigrum (syn. Phyteuma spicatum ssp nigrum), black […]
Bees / Pollinators
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KVANN’s garden at Væres Venner
(Norsk tekst finner du nederst: We spent 3 hours this afternoon weeding and starting to extend the KVANN garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden at Ranheim today! […]
Bees / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Early May in Malvik
Just a random selection of pictures from the garden from the last few days! 130518: Added a few more 160518: Added some Trilliums now at their best Post […]
Bees / Edimentals
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Bees and other pollinators on edimentals
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia […]
Bees / Edimentals / Onions
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Nodding onion season
I love my nodding onions (Allium cernuum) as you can read in my book and the diversity of forms increases as each year passes, both as I introduce […]
Allotment / Bees / Seed
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Stavanger and around
After my weekend course in Haugaland, member of Norwegian Seed Savers, Tone Lise Østboe kindly showed me around gardens in Stavanger and we also visited Rogaland arboretum outside the […]
Bees
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Umbrellifers for the bees!
In the rain, umBRellifers for the bees, umbellifers for us :) Post Views: 156