I had a visitor yesterday.

[sunshine]

  He's about 3 inches or less long.

[emilyB]

He's so cute............where did he come from?
 
 

[sunshine]

He came crawling out of the plants by these rocks.

[luvtimes]

He seems bright eyed and happy... isn't nature good...

[nannat6]

Ahhhhhhh...........so cute..............not ALL nature is great............I got stung by one of those big black bumblebees this weekend........thankfully it was a young one so was not as painful as it could have been........hubby found a nest they had build in an old bird nest in a bluebird house.....he did not see it and was cleaning out the house and just threw the nest on the ground and they came flying out..........the queen was huge.........later I was checking it out thinking they had left the area, but, no, one was still around somewhere and came after me........hubby has sprayed the nest and killed the ones (including the queen and lava) in it.........someone was not happy.......there were only a few in it to begin with.....I saw 3 fly off.......I had no idea there was a difference in those big black and yellow ones.......after looking it up, I found that was a bumblebee and they have their hives/nests in mouse hole or old bird nests (which makes me wonder if they are what killed my baby bluebirds in a house just a couple of trees from the other house they were in).........the others that bore into wood are called carpenter bumblebees..........interesting tidbit to know......

[sunshine]

nannant...the very same thing happened to me too. There's a bumble bee nest in the house hidden in the purple clematis. One stung me right through the glove. Luckily, it's not the kind of sting that itches for weeks.

[aesopsfable]

I heard he won a race against a rabbit, is it true.

[casio]

Don't kill bumblebees. They are the reason we have fresh fruits each year.

hubby has sprayed the nest and killed the ones (including the queen and lava) in it

Don't poison bumblebees. Killing queen bumblebees and their workers is why we have a shortage.