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In the garden
One of our bees on that blue-flowered shrub in our garden
In the couple of weeks that we have had the bees we have never really seen them nearby apart from a brief forage in the cherry tree at the end of the garden. They have never been on the dandelions we...[more]

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Posted on Friday 09 May 2008 - 14:26:19