We have a newly constructed strawberry planter where a bee has set up home. It has found a hole and is bringing in leaves and pollen.
Now there is another smaller bee, of a different species, that sits outside the hole and when the home maker leaves the 'robber' nips in and steals the pollen..........
This surely is robbery without violence..............
Possibly lead to a sting operation.
that was the buzz on the grapevine...
The big bee has obviously set up its own business; the small bee is a public sector employee.
Toom
IANAL - whatever the legal case, the 'robber' bee clearly gets some kind of buzz out of it.
Unless its some kind of honey-trap?
Does the home-maker make a bee-line straight back home after collecting the pollen?
Or has it bee-n seen out visiting other "flowers"?
Well, if he's cheating, he'll soon get stung... Why can't everyone bee nice to each other? Ho-hum. Typical man, no doubt he think's he's the bees-knees.
bee-have yourself...........
anyway the bee is now dead alongside his home. Not sure what killed it or it has just died out of all that hard work. I lifted the plastic covering over the 'hive' which looks very complex for a small assembly.
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