Bees in the feed

[KsKingBee]

you got to live it to learn it it is a cultural thing, you live the hussle and bussle of city kinda life and you don't have time to stop and smell the roses, you live out in the countryside and the roses are right out your back door

Dear old dad grew up in the country in the days of horse drawn farm equipment. He moved his family to the city and worked as a truck driver (Teamster) until he retired but always maintained a farm in the country. We called ourselves 'suitcase farmers' as we would come up to the farm every weekend to work the cattle and land.

My brother and I would still come up and help dad on weekends especially after he retired and moved back to the country. We would set on the tailgate of the truck and eat lunch and visit. It was one of those days when he admitted that he had been so busy working hard to make ends meet and get the things done that had to be done that he never noticed all the little things I had been pointing out to him.

I think that it was his awakening, ever after that we would find him sitting in the yard or in the pasture for hours observing his cattle and the little splendors that God put around him.

 

[zazouse]

I love nature

each year that passes i find new plants that i have never seen here, passion flowers grow at my wood line in one place here but not every year sometimes 5 years go by before i see them again.
I found this little carnivorous plant in my pasture never seen one before only found it in one spot, looked it up and it is called a sundew if i remember right. has a pretty pink blooms at the end of the spike

It does not live very long mabe 3 weeks then it turns black and just melts into the ground.

 

[MinxFox]

Yes that is a sundew. I learned about those a bit in my biology class. Carnivorous plants are very cool. I used to have a venus fly trap when I was little.
I haven't had an issue with bees in my bird feed, but I have killed a huge wasp before and fed it to my birds but I don't think they go after bees to eat normally. Then I recently saved a poor honey bee that was drowning in the bird's water.

 

[KsKingBee]

I haven't had an issue with bees in my bird feed, but I have killed a huge wasp before and fed it to my birds but I don't think they go after bees to eat normally. Then I recently saved a poor honey bee that was drowning in the bird's water.

My kind of gal!

Last spring we taught a beginning beekeeper class. On the last session we had all the students come out for a day in the apiary. When one of the students noticed all the birds milling about the hives, some of them sitting on top, he said that he was told that the birds would sit in front of the hive and eat the bees like a Pez dispenser.

It's funny how none of our birds show even the slightest interest in eating bees. Now larva, that's another story...