Btw, there are still plenty of bees in the lavender field. We get both bumble bees and honey bees. But here is the interesting bit..I have many kinds of lavender..in one section, I planted a block of purple lavender next to white lavender..and bumble bees and honey bees picked the white and purple sections respectively and never mixed!! It was the weirdest thing!!
I wonder if it’s a strategy for them to watch out for predators that are different coloured than them. I have seen bumblebees in purple lavender and honeybees in the white section and on white flowers..but when they swarm in large numbers, they keep separate.
And I know they are not colour blind. I have also heard that humming bird prefer red flowers..that’s not true. Thor is the resident humming bird of the oldest elderberry tree(all farm hummingbirds are called ‘Thor’) and I have seen the same Anna and Rufus hummingbirds at the passionflowers too. So..don’t know..they must have some territorial divide and dine strategy. The hummingbirds at least get super territorial and can be mean with each other…they just look cute. Humming birds are lean mean flying fighting machines with a sword attached to their face.
I wonder if it’s a strategy for them to watch out for predators that are different coloured than them. I have seen bumblebees in purple lavender and honeybees in the white section and on white flowers..but when they swarm in large numbers, they keep separate.
And I know they are not colour blind. I have also heard that humming bird prefer red flowers..that’s not true. Thor is the resident humming bird of the oldest elderberry tree(all farm hummingbirds are called ‘Thor’) and I have seen the same Anna and Rufus hummingbirds at the passionflowers too. So..don’t know..they must have some territorial divide and dine strategy. The hummingbirds at least get super territorial and can be mean with each other…they just look cute. Humming birds are lean mean flying fighting machines with a sword attached to their face.