I am showing my age now!! But somethings from your childhood one never forgets, Arthur Askey was a National Treasure, oh how we laughed in times more innocent.
PS. 1937? I am not that fucking old!
Anyways welcome to the pollinators in my garden, early morning, I caught a couple of the fifteen hundred or so species that frequent the UK.
I started rewilding a couple of years ago, put in a pond to attract frogs n newts n mayflies. Failed to date, but the wild flowers and the pollinating perennials have been a big hit with our flying friends.
A Migrant Hoverfly coming in to land on some wild tall hedge mustard heads.
The Migrating Hoverfly is often mistaken for those nasty bastards wasps, they look similar but the hoverfly is harmless, neither stinging nor biting. A brilliant and hard working insect which not only is a pollinator but also enjoys feasting on aphids.
Seems like they weren't fussy, one of his mates had landed in one of the roses
Whilst another was feeding on a California Poppy. The Love in a Mist will be pulled up this weekend as they have flowered and they will be self seeding, if I am not careful, they will over run everything else next year.
A Buff Tailed Bumble Bee and Hoverfly
I have been allowing wild opium poppies to grow for a number of years, a majestic plant strong and tall, this year has seen an abundance of deep purple to bright pink blooms
The buff tailed bumble bee, the biggest bumble bee in the Uk, fucking love these poppies, with their big open heads the nectar is easily reached with their short tongues.
I wonder if the hive will be rocking tonight.