Wildlife at work

As some of you may know I'm lucky enough to work in a nice garden centre and I was in plant area this morning and a dragonfly flew into my t-shirt, the colours was so cool, looks like he had some cobwebs on his wings that sent him off balance, just as few pics before he flew off, he looked like he was smiling on one of the pics, could of been a girl like but I don't know the difference, lol,https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f246ddef29.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d1930ce39d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...111c81d559.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a30d915e1a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f0a46a3f09.jpg

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Looks like a living jewel. Just beautiful.

Love it!!:)

Thanks for sharing buddy, wow that is one way cool looking dragonfly. I like how you got him on your hand, so many awesome pictures. Nice!

Thanks everyone,it was such a cool colour couldn’t resist a pic to share


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Very nice! I don't really like bugs, but that one is interesting.
Thanks for sharing

I don’t do spiders at all, lol
most insects don’t bother me tho



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Incredible colors...nature provides us with so many fascinating creatures. (yup, I've even kept a few spiders, a tarantula & a scorpion in the past)

There's quite a few dragonflies around here in the South (U.S.), but I don't get such a close-up view to admire their colors, so thanks! :gj:

Thanks , I think it’s the closest I’ve ever got to one too , I couldn’t believe how bright it was


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Hey, how about a pet bee??? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-AiN2lKDM

wow, that's beautiful. what are the chances of that happening? and for it to stick around and take pix? so cool!

i have a "preserved" dragonfly at home. one day i found it, dead and dried but still very pretty, between the wind guard and hood of my mom's car.

also i thought u worked at Macy's or Nordstrom's or whatever the UK equivalent is lol.

No it's a really big garden £5 million+ a year, so pretty busy, we have 21 centres round the UK and we not the biggest our largest one dies £10million a year
we do a massive Xmas department at end of August after garden furniture goes.
I do all the Xmas displays and most of the visual merchandising around the centre
Yes it was pretty cool the dragon fly, I'm sure I looked it up and it's a lesser hawker species
Cheers Richard

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That bee is so cool


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That bee is so cool


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I know...I've never seen anyone do that before...who knew?

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Hey, how about a pet bee??? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-AiN2lKDM

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How long do bees live approximately ?


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How long do bees live approximately ?


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I'm not a bee expert, but I think that's a bumble bee in the video & the queen lives the longest...only about a year, and the male drones far less. :tears:
Only the queen hibernates & survives winter, until the following summer and around the time that new 'queens' are born into the colony.

I can personally attest to the docility of bumble bees, by the way...I get quite a few in my yard here, & one of my elderly dogs chases all things that buzz- :(
rather cluelessly, I might add, but she seems never to get stung? Anyway, I have lots of flowering ground-cover (vincas) in my back yard, & in spite of being
chased by my goofy dog, the bees don't seem to ever retaliate...they just move over & go on about their business. So I can understand how the lady in the
video wasn't stung by the bee she helped, but it probably wouldn't work so well with a honey bee, not to mention that some of them are "Africanized" (& far
easier to arouse).