Another Bee Related Question

[Tilly2]

having been watching the bees bobbing in and out of the poppies, I was wondering if the flower ever runs out of nectar. If lots of bees visit one flower, do they drink it dry?

[woofgang]

yes they do. Some flowers that last more than a day, produce more and some flowers with a shorter lifespan do not.

[Tilly2]

So, do they 'kill' the flower, woofgang?

[woofgang]

no, the nectar is there precisely to attract the pollinating insects.

[gness]

Tilly...spending much of my childhood in Ireland where the hedges were beautiful fuchsia bushes I used to pick the heads of the flowers, break off the top piece of the flower head where it joins its stem...and suck out the nectar...try it....delicious....x

[Tilly2]

I don't have a sweet tooth, gness. I don't think I'd like it. Besides which, we don't have wild fuchsias where I live.

[tonyav]

we don't have wild fuchsias where I live.


Get some planted then, Yilly !.

[Tilly2]

Thank you, woofgang. Some of the bees I've been watching today had so much pollen in their pollen sacs, I wondered if they would be able to fly back to the colony.
I know about the nectar attracting the pollinating insects. I just wondered if, when all the nectar has been collected, the flower then faded.

[Tilly2]

Tony, do you have wild fuchsias in your garden?

[tonyav]

I don't know Yilly, not very good with flower identification.

[gness]

They don't have to be wild fuchsias.....ones that you haven't upset will do just as well.... ;-) x

[Tilly2]

Well they will be upset if I pull their heads off!

[gness]

Then you'll have wild fuchsias.... :-) xx

[Tilly2]

You're too clever for me!

[tonyav]

gawd, I'm dieing to say something about deflowering lol.

[Tilly2]

This is a serious question, Yontav. Buzz off!

[tonyav]

Ohhhhhhhh, that was stinging, Yilly.

[Tilly2]

I can be even more barbed.

[tonyav]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jisNh8jP_g

[Tilly2]

Can you find the Arthur Askey one Tony?

Not that I want to hear it. I'm just trying to keep you busy.

[Psybbo]

And out of mischief