Far From the Madding Crowd: Buff-tailed bee (19.12.13)

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Buff-tailed bee (19.12.13)

Buff-tailed bee (19.12.13), a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

This is the Buff-tailed bumblebee in my garden today. This bumblebee is still out and about through the winter, particularly if it is mild. This plant, the Mahonia is a great source of food for it during the winter months.

3 comments:

holdingmoments said...: I wouldn't have expected to see bees at this time of the year.; 19 December 2013 at 20:45
Roy Norris said...: Thats astonishing Lyn, I'm sure we are going to suffer for this reasonable weather before long.; 19 December 2013 at 23:58
Richard Pegler said...: I too had not realised that bees are out and about at this time of year and, if I'd seen one, would probably assume that it was not very well!

Have a great Christmas, Linda, and all the best for 2014.; 22 December 2013 at 13:56

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.