Posts Tagged: swimming pool

Rescue 911

Okay, I’ll admit it. I have a soft spot for honey bees. Today I fished out some thoroughly drenched honey bees from our swimming pool.Indeed, the...

Drenched honey bee gets ready to sip honey from a plastic spoon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Drenched honey bee gets ready to sip honey from a plastic spoon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey

Honey bee cleaning her tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee cleaning her tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Everybody Out of the Pool

It's raining bumble bees in our pool.Yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii). And honey bees (Apis mellifera), too.While nectaring lavender,...

Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee

ALL WET--Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) emerges from the pool. In a few moments it took flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee

RESCUED honey bee from the pool. It survived the splash landing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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