The Wonderful and Gorgeous Bumblebee

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Horrible messy stuff, luckily I killed it in mid air, no chance of smashing his bellyfull of my own blood.

No chance of that anyway - only the females bite :-)

Rightly you say! T'was she, I meant 'her', but that's all i am consending to say. It is enough all the destructive swirling wind things are given female names. In our human race they are the better half (excepting the obvious bitches) :-).

Tomorrow I am going to visit my dad and his small gathering of honey bees families (what is the English collective n. for a family of bees, by the way?)

A swarm? Doesn't sound too friendly, though, and bees already have enough PR problems. Perhaps we should call them a flock, instead.

A swarm of bee families then, a flock of families maybe? I hope the matter is not settled...

Cheers

Perhaps we should just swap for bees and seagulls - a swarm of seagulls seems appropriate...

[ratters]

A humming bird hawk moth taken in Spain. The name begs the question as to who named it as such. They must have known about humming birds which don't live in UK!

[Hauptman]

We like bees...........here's one breakfasting on a spot of honey on the girlfriends finger.

H/man

[Dougan]

A humming bird hawk moth taken in Spain. The name begs the question as to who named it as such. They must have known about humming birds which don't live in UK!

Nice photo - That's the sort of shot I was trying to get...but only had a Fugi Finepix, and was competing with a load of egrets that just loved nectar wrapped in moth meat...