Which flowers attract bumblebees this July?
I've seen fewer bumblebees in my garden and the countryside in the South West this week.
Cue a visit to the nearby Botanical Garden to find which bumblebees are active and which flowers are providing pollen and nectar.
Hebe flowers from New Zealand seem the most attractive; here's a Bombus lucorum [queen?] heavily weighed down with bundles of pollen
Also among the Hebe flowers, there were tree bumblebees: Bombus lapidarius
Another popular flower is the St Johns Wort : Hypericum which attracted common carder been, Bombus pascuorum carrying red pollen loads
And Bombus lucorum, here carrying a yellow pollen load
And Japanese anemones
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