I’m not a beekeeper, but since marrying my beekeeper husband many years ago I have fallen in love with bees and try to provide a good wild garden for them to flourish. They are just so beautiful aesthetically and of course they are our essential pollinators. I found I have a knack with my phone camera, and spend hours interrupting our walks to take photos of bees, buterflies, dragonflies, wild flowers and the like. I snapped this bumblebee down by the Trent and Mersey Canal in Barton-under- Needwood, Staffordshire. It was taking off aſter making the most of some stray rapeseed plants along the bank.


Julie Coley Staffordshire


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