Apis mellifera

European honey bee at Undefined, NSW

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Apis (Apis) mellifera

20 Apr 2019

HarveyPerkins

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5 comments

JackieMiles wrote:

20 Apr 2019

The question of what that bee is sitting on is tantalising me. Looks familiar but I can't place it. Any idea Harvey? Planted near the lighthouse or naturally occurring?

HarveyPerkins wrote:

20 Apr 2019

This was in the vegetable garden established down near the well. If you zoom in on the map you can see exactly where. And the plant - I assumed they were flowering garlic, certainly an overgrown Allium of some sort.

JackieMiles wrote:

21 Apr 2019

Of course, that's why it looked familiar. I hope not garlic chives. We have that in our garden and it has proved quite invasive. But all those flowers reveal is onion family, without some leaf as well.

HarveyPerkins wrote:

21 Apr 2019

They definitely weren't garlic chives. Interestingly the garlic chives I have here in the garden have pinky-purple almost tubular flowers. And while the clump slowly spreads, I've never found them to be invasive. The plants on Montague would have to have been either garlic or onion.

JackieMiles wrote:

22 Apr 2019

I have one plant of the mauve flowered garlic chives too, and have found it to be non-invasive, but the unimproved white flowered form is highly so. I pull the flowers off to stop them seeding, but they are still spreading slowly (compared with very rapidly before I got into the habit of beheading them). We also have "elephant garlic" which is quite invasive.

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