Very Attractive To Bumble Bees

Monday 17th June 2019

Viper’s Bugloss (echium vulgare) growing adjacent the Southern Range Road (Battlesbury Spur Road), Boreham, Warminster.

The flowers start pink but turn blue – the pollen is blue – and the stamens are red. Very attractive to bumble bees.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Monday 17th June 2019.

error: Content is protected !!