Flowers for bees this year

[friedgreen51]

Our best bee attracting plant is the Mountain Mint. In fact a lot of pollinators like it

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[lee53011]

Anise Hyssop would be our number one flower for bees. There are bees everywhere on ours, hundreds at a time! And they last for months.

[SpookyShoe]

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This oxalis is blooming now. It's invasive but I leave a lot of it because the bees seem to like it.

[SpookyShoe]

This looks like some kind of exotic fly on alyssum.

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[Amateurinawe]

Tried to google cobalt blue fly and got lots of weirdy stuff, so can't help there....loving the pretty flowers tho.

[SpookyShoe]

It's a blue bottle fly.

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[worth1]

I don't visit here often enough.
I knew it was a blue bottle fly.
My mom called them that.

[worth1]

AKA blow fly.
They lay their eggs on dead animals.
They always showed up when we killed chickens and plucked them in large quantities.
I honestly hated chicken killing time and for the life of me don't know why my parents didn't do it later in the season so it would be cold.
Pretty stupid if you ask me.