California Gardening: Bees - where are they?, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
Fascinating little critters aren't they? Individually they don't really think, but seem to have racial instincts that tell them what to do. I love their little dances when the Scout bees come back to the hive, and do their dance to tell the other bees where to find those nectar producing plants. : - )
Played hooky on Wednesday and went with DH to some of his bee locations. It was cold and windy, about 60 degrees. When the sun came out, I was able to get this photo of a busy bee working on some old sweet peas near Morris Dam in San Gabriel. There used to be an old homestead there, but the CDF either destroyed it or it burned and they didn't rebuild.
DH promised to collect seeds for me, but I'll bet he forgets. Good excuse to play hooky again!
All the bees were flying low to the ground that day.
BTW, all the worker bees are females (sterile), the drones only have one job, and once the mating flight is over the workers won't feed the drones, and even kick them out of the hive. I guess they got no use for non working bees. The male drones can't even forage for themselves and soon die.
Fascinating!
Hope you get more bees soon!
WIB,
SW