Welcome to Litsy!

I am, as Mrs Bookwomble put it, identifying the fuck out of these bees! 🐝🔍🤓
This is a Garden Bumblebee. Other visitors to the flowering shrub in our back garden have been the Honeybee, of course, a Common Carder Bee and a Red-tailed Bumblebee. The tagged guide has 28 of the most common of the ~250 British bee species, and it's enriching my lazy day in the sun 🌞
Also had a few Common Blue butterflies for variety 🦋

Always learn new things. I took up keeping bees, so I need to know about bees and their behavior. This allows me to be a better steward of the hives I care for.

3⭐️ Thought it was ok; felt like a slog for most of the book, as I felt that the three storylines could have been better integrated than they were. #2024 #bookclub #climatefiction #fiction #dystopian

“Thousands of other bees rise from the nest, too, first to orient themselves and then to forage for water, or collect a sticky lant sap called propolis, a kind of bee glue or gather pollen.”