[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF]
Can you spot the bee? Look closely and you’ll even see the delicate veins on its wings! Bees are still busy pollinating our many flowers. In addition to our usual late summer stars – asters, goldenrods, perennial sunflowers and Rudbeckias – we still have a few other plants blooming, such as a surprise show from our spring-flowering wild geraniums. Have you found the bee yet? The sun shone through the petals of these sunflowers, revealing the silhouette of a busy bee, on the lower half of the larger sunflower. To learn more about these beneficial insects, click here.
Sarah Coulber
Sarah is an Education Specialist at the Canadian Wildlife Federation. She writes about the benefits and ‘how-to’s’ of wildlife-friendly gardening, coordinates content for the Gardening for Wildlife web section, co-manages the wildlife-friendly demonstration gardens at CWF headquarters and assists Canadians looking to achieve similar results with their own properties.
