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There are lots of bumblebees this year (fortunately) ! If you look closely in the garden at night, you will see them: the sleeping bumblebees and bees

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There are lots of bumblebees this year (fortunately) !
If you look closely in the garden at night, you will see them: the sleeping bumblebees and bees.

Bumblebees often sleep in flowers or sheltered places, such as nesting holes, insect hotels or under leaves. They may also sleep outside on plants and flowers, especially when it's flight season. Sleeping bumblebees can be recognized by their relaxed posture, where they sink through their legs and sometimes even fall over.

So don't disturb them!

They fall asleep on the plants on which they fly during the day: lavender, marjoram, the butterfly bush, the teasel, various thistles and somewhat less on carrot.

A sleeping bumblebee can be recognized by its antennae hanging forward. It usually hangs from the underside of a flower, and its wings are closed tightly backward.

Aren't they cute ?

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Vera, your sleeping bee images are gorgeous! You should scrap these. I no longer have a garden, living now in a third-story walk-up apartment, but I remember seeing bees sleeping when I had a garden.
 
Vera, your sleeping bee images are gorgeous! You should scrap these. I no longer have a garden, living now in a third-story walk-up apartment, but I remember seeing bees sleeping when I had a garden.
I will scrap them, but when ;) No i want to but first i need to sort out all my pictures...
 
Wow amazing! I love your photos! Those humming cutie pies fly in my garden too but I never saw them sleep.
 
WOW!!!

:wow:

WOW!!

I love bumblebees and your photos are just incredible, Vera!

My little garden is filled with bee balm and coneflower and I could watch the bees collecting pollen all day long. ♥
 
Wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing! We use to have 10 bee hives on our farm and always saw lots of bees in my garden. The honey was wonderful too! Miss it.
 
Amazing photos Vera! You are truly and fantastic photographer! I have never seen sleeping bees!!! they look so cute!!! We don't have a lot of bumble bees down here, most of ours are the common honey bees and they tend to go back to their hives at night. Our own Australian native bees are tiny little things compared to the common honey bee and are blackish in colour but I have never seen them asleep either! I will need to take a little walk through the garden in the evening when summer (and warm weather) returns!! :)
 
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