Knock Out Honey Bees

[blackcatofmisery]

My mom's garden has a vigorous knock out rosebush just beside it, and various bees adore it. Although I'm severely allergic to bites and stings, I will still follow honey and bumble bees; they're too busy to care about me.

_{Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.}

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Great to see them on the job 🐝

[turlough]

Lovely roses and such excellent busy bees!

[full_metal_ox]

Those roses (and they’re breathtaking; an embodiment of early summer, and kudos for having captured the bees in midair!) have the air of some sort of heirloom rose, not that far from the wild state: the foliage seems to be strongly textured in the fashion of a rugosa, and the individual flowers are not only single but tiny (with the honeybee for convenient scale), borne in an almost desperate profusion (expressed in the lacy fractal bud clusters.)

Does this rose bloom only in late spring/early summer, or is it a repeat bloomer?

[lizardjay]

Very pretty!

I don't know my flowers well at all; if you'd asked me I would have no idea those were roses. I've learned today! :D

[cmcmck]

They've been hard at it in our garden too!

Great pics.

[kaishin108]

How wonderful, all that pollination going on!

[adafrog]

Lovely.

[gingicat]

Great pictures!

The New York Times Spelling Bee encourages readers to submit photos of bees. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/crosswords/bee-forum-photo-submissions.html

[shirebound]

Three cheers for busy bees! Your pics make me smile on a cloudy and chilly morning.

[ribirdnerd]

Those might be multiflora rose, an invasive introduced species. They have many blooms around this time of year, but they can really take over an area.

[ribirdnerd]

https://www.ecolandscaping.org/07/landscape-challenges/invasive-plants/multiflora-rose-an-exotic-invasive-plant-fact-sheet/