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What’s flowering now – Cornwall, April 2022

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Some photos of the flowers I’ve seen out and about in Cornwall and in my garden over the last couple of weeks. I like to see what’s in flower and available for the bees.

Below is my miniature apple tree. I mainly see hoverflies and bumbles visiting this. Honey bees tend to favor large collections of one type of flower, so this wee tree is probably not worth it for them.

Apple flowers

One of the first bees of the year I saw in my garden was the enchantingly named female Hairy-footed flower bee. I always see them on the deep blue

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Legal professional: Man concerned in prepare killing shot in self-defense

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A person who shot and killed a passenger on a San Francisco subway commuter prepare shall be charged with gun crimes however not murder in what was “clearly” a case of self-defense after he was attacked with a knife, his legal professional mentioned Monday.

Javon Inexperienced, 26, will face expenses of getting a hidden weapon in a public place and having a loaded gun in a public place, each felonies that probably might be lowered to misdemeanors, legal professional Randy Knox informed the San Francisco Chronicle.

Inexperienced was scheduled for a court docket look on Tuesday.

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Bees – off! | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

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Some of my longer term readers may remember that I had bees in my chimney stack. This had turned into a tricky problem, with quotes of £4,000+ to remove them and reseal the chimney. It wasn’t even my fault (honestly!!) as when the swarm first moved in my own bees were based around four miles away. The bees just found me.

Well, I found a solution! I joined a Facebook group called UK Bee Removers. Where I then noticed a lady called Molly from Bees Off based in Cornwall. I’m so pleased to have found someone local, who could do

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Bees in January | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

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And so we’re in 2022… another year for us… but the first and only winter for my bees. Huddled in their nest, resting their wings, winter bees tend to live longer than summer bees. But still their life-span is measured in months, not years.

On any dry day this winter, my colony has continued to be active, flying and finding yellow and orange pollens. In the photo below (taken a week or so ago) I’ve found one returning with bright orange pollen. I’m not seeing much in flower, so am not sure what this might be. Possibly willow or mahonia?

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