A rather scruffy bee in my garden in Keswick. The Lake District is about insects too! Really quite weird and wonderful to find myself eyeballing such a strange creature, usually they are darting about so much that you never see the detail. This one was moving with difficulty so is an old bee, think of an octogenarian in human terms. A bumblebee queen lives for up to a year, workers and males for far less. It would be great to think that this queen has fulfilled her biological instinct and established a colony in my garden.
