These Ladies (Apis mellifera) are the only reason I am still maintaining my nectar feeder in November.
Sadly, it seems the neighbors' Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) are determined to become a problem, it's getting tough to work around Feeder City without bees bullying me.
A Bluebottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria) sharing a rotten tangerine with a Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) this morning.
It appears my nectar feeder is becoming a big food source for the neighbors' Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
The Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) waste little time locating any "new" old clementines...
An Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) perched on the mailbox post, with a Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) flying by.
The neighbor's Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) are thoroughly UN-deterred by the bee guards on my nectar feeder, which is fine by me...lol
A Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) working around the hanging birdbath this morning.
Some Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) have finally found the rotten tangerines I frequently leave out in the feedlot. I have no real use for rotten tangerines as no one here will let me "bop them on the bean" in any case.
Some Western Honeybees (Apis mellifera) helping themselves to the bounties of the Feedlot.
Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drinking water from the hanging birdbath.
A Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) and some Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) getting in each other's way at the nectar feeder this morning. ( Seldom truly like an image, but the 2 bees with the hummingbird, all in flight, is a real fave at least for now...lol)
A few Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) foraging about the feedlot this morning.
A group of Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) are still tanker-trucking water off across the street today. I had to tap the birdbath on the fence to get the bees to takeoff so I could clean and refill the birdbath. There was a small cloud of bees waiting for water when I brought the it back...
Some Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) seemed to have adopted the hanging Birdbath as a 4 star watering-hole. They were so busy hauling water I could not take the bath away to clean it, so it was just refilled for today.
Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) on the Hummingbird feeder this morning...
Some Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) around the feeder this morning, with a Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) thrown in...