How wet can a bee get? Very, very wet, it seems! After last night's torrential rains, we were out bright and early, and came across this poor thing...
Behaviour obs #4
Down in the dark woods today, we watched a small bumblebee visit several large hogweed leaves, and walk quickly round the edges of them one after another, before flying off. Was this a male, laying a pheremone trail?
This is a really sad looking bumblebee, I wonder if it survived. We keep seeing more dead bumblebees lying around, maybe it has something to do with the weather.
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