Flying Ants

There are still lots of flowers for the bees to gather nectar and pollen. These "China Girl" lillies and Agapanthus are great favourites with several species of bumblebee.  The Tagetes, Ladybird poppies and
Clematis are the focus for honeybees.

QB visited Yellow hive on the heather moors today and got quite a surprise!.
The heather is almost in full flower now and the colony is working very hard.
The capped brood is emerging and I can see the young bees on the letboard trying out their wings.
We seemed to time our arrival at the site with the biggest cloud of flying ants I have ever seen. They
were all over the car and all over the hive too.  The bees seemed to ignore them completely and got
on with their work.