Wildlife at work

[Ax01]

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.

[richardhind1972]

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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[richardhind1972]

That bee is so cool


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[Bogertophis]

That bee is so cool


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

[Zincubus]

Hey, how about a pet bee???

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

How long do bees live approximately ?


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[Bogertophis]

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.
Only the queen hibernates & survives winter, until the following summer and around the time that new 'queens' are born into the colony.

[Bogertophis]

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).