These warm days of September are attracting quite a few bees to my back yard roses, and I had the rare privilege of photographing two "queen bees" on a single rose bloom. Now, an apiarist would argue that these aren't queen bees, because queen bees are the ones that remain in their hives tending to reproductive duties. Ah, but you must consider that the pair of brotherly bees in the photo below are gathering their pollen from one of my 'Queen Elizabeth' rose blooms. So why not call them "queen bees".
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| Photo taken: September 9, 2015 |
