Yesterday I saw a bumblebee trying to get into closed daisies until she flew off towards the cat mint. Bees can be very imprecise, but then Nature is like Homer Simpson on a building project. "Boy these bees do not have very good vision. ... Eh, good enough."
That fits pretty well with Homer Simpson, actually. I revise my image to evolution as Homer Simpson running a business for Nature. "Homer J. Simpson, you are a genius. Why put in 12 brain cells when 10 works nearly as well."
Out here in AZ, the desert willows are in full bloom right now along with the mesquite and palo verdes, and all the bees are stumbling from tree to tree like drunks on a 12-hour bar-crawl. It's really funny, I swear they're swerving as they fly.
Bumblebees aren't quite like honeybees--the workers are fertile and lay male eggs--so any given bee isn't automatically female. That said, I'm not good enough to sex bumblebees, and this time of year it's probably female, unless I got the species wrong, in which case all bets are off.
It's funny how this reminds me a lot of a series of notebook pages I did for a RP character a while ago. I think I might even have used the same font at some point. :) (Well, there's not much you can do with yellowed paper look, handwritten-ish text and natural drawings, but still. Funny. :)
She explained when she first started messing with these journal pages just before the trip to Africa, that this is not her handwriting. Almost all of the text on the journal page is typed using a font that mimics handwriting. Ursula's handwriting is barely legible and could be mistaken for graffiti in certain spots...
They travel the woad and through seven trees...
Some of them want to cruise by you...
(I initially misread the plant name as "taciturn meadow rue.")
(Well, there's not much you can do with yellowed paper look, handwritten-ish text and natural drawings, but still. Funny. :)
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