This bee was crawling on a comforter I had on my front porch. He wasn’t moving much – it was a bit chilly. I would have preferred if he had been sitting on a better background, but I didn’t want to attempt to move him.
Maralee
The world as I see it
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B 4 Da Freeze yup…snowing here:) LoL
Looks like a her.
How can you tell? I might learn something today. 🙂
Yes, I would like to know too how she knows it is a her…we are very curious creatures aren’t’ we?
She knows because she has a mild interest in bees, and read something like this some time ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)
. . . also because she’s not a she, but a he, and he recognizes other hes. It a useful ability as he travels about the world.
We haven’t had a bee in the garden for quite a few days now.