Common Carder

It's so confusing to be cleaning the lodge when it isn't Saturday but we've had quite few last minute short breaks booked. We are used to working with Saturday Kitchen on in the background, but not today.

The cleaning went easily and I took the camera around the garden looking for a blip. I was taking shots of the wild flowers but then I noticed the bees and thought they deserved to get on the shot.

The common carder bee is on of our commonest bumble bees. There are 24 species in all.