Sunday Photo Reflection #15: Wild Flower & The Bee

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Earlier this summer I was strolling through a meadow looking for place to picnic and thought this spot was perfectly dreamy. No sooner had I settled in before bees started arriving. We cohabitated safely—me reading and they doing what bees do when they find a good flower.

With my trusty iPhone, captured this bee doing aerial gymnastics. As for the flower, I don’t know it’s name so I’ll just call it “purple mop head” 😊 If you know it, please name it🙏🏽. Happy Sunday!

UPDATE: Thanks to Eliza I now know the “purple mop head” is the Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe).

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24 thoughts on “Sunday Photo Reflection #15: Wild Flower & The Bee”

  1. Ace Manny

    I can’t access the blog to comment 😕

    On Sat., Sep. 18, 2021, 11:39 p.m. Poems & More: createdbyDEEsign, wrote:

    > Dee Min posted: ” Strolling through a meadow looking for place to picnic > and thought this spot was perfectly dreamy. No sooner had I settled in > before bees arrived. We cohabitated safely—me reading and they doing what > bees do when they find a good flower. Thank yo” >

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  7. Well, this photo has much to comment upon! Firstly, it is Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) an invasive from Europe, the bane of hay farmers. Unwittingly, you have also caught a spider in the act of predation. That bee isn’t just hanging there, a spider has it in its clutches and will be having it for dinner. Law of the jungle!

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