Rewilding My Lot

Usually my first stop in the morning is to visit the native grasses and watch the busy bees for a few minutes. They’re hard to photograph, because once they land on a flimsy grass stem, then everything swings around wildly. Here’s one I managed to catch, though, with bulging yellow pollen baskets.

I am not certain, but I think the bees visiting my native grasses might be honey bees of some sort. As these bees visit plants, pollen collects on hairs all over their body, which they then brush into pollen baskets, one on each leg. The pollen is then carried to the nest or hive as food for the colony.