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| Coming in for a landing. |
RANDOM MUSINGS: It’s one of those times when it’s necessary
to put aside – if only briefly – the daily
cares of life and to take at least a modicum of respite to smell the roses; or,
as in my case, to observe the workings of nature’s winged creatures.
The very hot weather that is keeping so many of us
indoors in air-conditioned comfort has also prompted hordes of others to head to
the Jersey shore: Everybody has his or
her own preferred way of dealing with escaping this brutal heat.
I’ve been working
in the front-yard garden on these recent, steamy days of early summer, when the
perennial butterfly bushes come into full bloom and begin to attract nature’s pollinators.
Each season, bees are the first arrivals: They waste no time in their efforts to
collect as much nectar and pollen as they can and to fly it back to their hive
for conversion into the honey that will carry them through the winter
months.
Butterfly bushes (Buddleia) come
into full bloom during the very last days of June, and they continue to push
out their long and colorful flowering spikes into August and September.
However, the adopted
Bergeron bees have been very pre-occupied over the last three weeks with an
earlier source of food – the end of June is too late for them to wait for
plants that start blooming then.
