
Thing to do in the garden during lockdown day 67: do a bit of bee spotting
Time to take a closer look at the nations favourite pollinators. My knowledge of bees is pretty basic: bumble, honey and mason, which is lousy considering there are 270 species in the UK and 16,000 known species on the planet. So today I thought I would take time to see who is hanging out in my garden. Catching them on camera is very tricky and I only have a hit rate of identifying one species - the banded white-tailed bumble bees. However it is good to acknowledge the plant