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Title: local flower with bees
Post by: bailey on March 22, 2009, 10:33:56 PM

just a quick photo of our local thistle flower with a few visitors :lol:

(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9767/document1.th.jpg) (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=document1.jpg)

bailey

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: poka-bee on March 22, 2009, 11:32:39 PM

waOOOOO...I want flowers tooooo! The only thing starting to bloom are some of the early camelias & poppit weeds :-x J

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: Keith13 on March 23, 2009, 09:09:37 AM

Bailey walking through my field yesterday I saw abunch of bees in the thistle. Its neat to see them digging way down deep into the flower so much they almost disappear inside the flower. I also noticed a few that looked as if they came in to fast and were impaled on the spikes. I had my niece with me and she was amazed by all the different bugs that cover these plants

Keith

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: BjornBee on March 23, 2009, 09:11:11 AM

Is that Canadian thistle?

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: jdpro5010 on March 23, 2009, 05:28:43 PM

And to think I was excited about the skunk cabbage blooming! :-D

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: irerob on March 23, 2009, 10:42:56 PM

I got some :-D. If I can post them.
http://img16.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=hpim1393.jpg

Title: Re: local flower with bees
Post by: bailey on March 24, 2009, 12:09:19 AM

all i know is that it is called thistle down here.
i have lived all over the south, ( louisiana mississippi arkansas texas and tennesee )
the only place i have ever seen this plant is in south louisiana.
dont think that it is canadian thistle bjorne, sorry

keith, aint it fun to watch the bees dig into these? they almost vanish into the flowers.

bailey

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