New month.
New ambition.
To get more acquainted with the concept of time. Specifically earliness.🙄😊

Bee fact spoiler:
City #bumblebees being less uniform means colony as a whole able to forage more successfully on the greater variety of flowers available.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 172.

Research suggests urban #bumblebees are more phenotypically diverse as there is a greater RANGE of flowers available in urban areas and #bees developing more diversity of traits gives the colony more options when foraging.

Bee.

Goodnight Jim Bob.

Dream dreams so bright they defy the darkness.

#bee #goodnight #dream

Butterfly crime scene.😔
Wings of an Orange-tip couple found in a muddy patch adjacent to Cuckoo flowers.
Keeping an open mind on the incident.
#nature
#butterflies
#beesanctuaryireland

Late but worth the wait!
#bees

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 171.

Research suggesting urban #bumblebees are smaller than their country cousins proposes that this difference in size is down to availability of resources and ‘urban warming’.
Less food and warmer environment = smaller #bees .

Lilac and birdsong.
There are worse ways to spend a minute of a morning.

#lilac #birdsong #nature
#beesanctuaryireland

Bee.

Goodnight Elizabeth.

Dreams are but refugees from reality.

#bee #goodnight #dream

Just in case:

Phenotype - the observable physical properties of an organism; these include the organism's appearance, development, and behavior. Phenotype is determined by genotype, which is the set of genes the organism carries, as well as by environmental influences upon…

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 170.

A study in Switzerland focusing on two species of #bumblebee commonly found throughout Europe suggests that ‘City Bumblebees’ are smaller but more phenotypically diverse than their ‘Country Bumblebee’ cousins.
#bees

Bee.

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep.

Dream so big they can’t comprehend it

#bee #goodnight #dream

The peace of just being…

Ziggy by the Big Pond on The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland earlier.

#nature #dogs #birds #ponds
#bees anctuaryireland #bees
#peace

Sorry folks had to make the best of the dry weather while it lasted here to get outdoor work done so only bringing Sunday’s fact to you now.
Normal rain service has resumed this evening.
That wetter weather today’s fact references.
#bees

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 169
# 168 contd.

Research found that in hotter & wetter years #bees had higher wing asymmetry meaning higher stress.
So #climate change bringing more hotter/wetter years will mean ever more stress on #bumblebees going forward.

That coconut scent drifted on the breeze mingling with the birdsong and bright yellow saturating my senses with pure nature tearing me from thoughts irrelevant and halting my stride earthing me in the moment to the simple bliss missed in the rush we live I paused free timeless.

Dogs by the far pond.
The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland today.
Where #nature thrives.

#dogs #bees #pond
#bees anctuaryireland
#vegan #organic #sanctuary

Earth Day everyday here on The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.
#EarthDay2024

Daisies, don’t you just love them, I do. The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.
#flowers
#bees
#wild
#nature
#organic
#sanctuary

Cuckoo Flower swaying in the breeze, The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.
#wild flowers
#flowers
#bees
#birds
#butterflies
#trees
#wild
#nature