My neighbor Lynn finds bee pix boring. But I can’t get enough of them. I love the little orange bundles of pollen they pick up from the verbascum.
Weekend pix: Bees on verbascum
Category: Insects/pollinators
Bee on crocus, scilla
More in the on-going march of spring ephemerals …
More buzzing (I. reticulata)
We’ve had a couple of nice days with temps ~60. Yesterday, dozens of bees were working the Iris reticulata, an invitation to sit down and take some pix:
Spring a-buzzin’
We’ve had a handful of sunny days with temps 10 to 20 degrees above normal (broke 60 today!), making for an unusually pleasant mid-March.
Eranthis
Tulips pushing through cyclamen.
Hellebore emerging.
Hemlock woolly adelgids hit Cayuga basin
Hemlock Woolly Adelgids – an exotic pest from Asia first found in the U.S. in 1951 near Richmond, Va., has found its way into the Cayuga basin. According to a USDA pest alert, this pest threatens the health and sustainability of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in our area, and the Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) further south.
If you spot any in our neck of the woods, please let Mark Whitmore in the Natural Resources Department at Cornell know: mcw42@cornell.edu.