A billion eyes are watching you. Part 2.

Children in the garden are so much fun! There can be too much science and not enough magic in the garden. I love your helper's theory. :-) It's why I still contend that faeries use my foxglove blooms for hats and ride about on the backs of butterflies and bees.

Birds are territorial, why not bees...

I do like your apprentice gardeners take on life xxx

Its good that she is taking an interest and yes she might be right, who are we to argue, I 've had to rescue a couple from the waterbutts, why they have to have a drink from there I do not know, i have two ponds and three birdbaths that are far easier to get their drink from, without the danger of drowning.......

Lol excellent again Mouldy.

I am so impressed that young gardener can rescue bees...both my adult kids are very frightened of them and it matters not how much I try to persuade them both. 23 and 21 and both carrying on like hysterical neurotics every time a bee comes indoors or flies near them! Well done junior gardener!

The secret is out - I've got a very keen 8 year old too. She's the only one not to be scared of the beasties.
Mouldy - I hope she had a pay increase with her promotion!

Super blogs, Mouldy!

If it is the same bee, it'll be a bit disappointed just now.

My garden is just full of mosquitoes at the moment, and I have the scars (and the discomfort) to prove it. I think a batch must have recently "hatched", so to speak. Ugh! and Ouch...

Tatia, just because we become adults doesn't mean we have to grow up, right? ;-)
I'm in total agreement with you, Pamg. I'd just never seen two bees squaring off to each other, different varieties aside.
I blame the chocolate! Lol.
She's taking more than an interest, Lincs.
This young lady has a mind like a steel trap. Question after question, not only about gardening.
Her mum & gran (My best pal) tried telling her off for constantly asking me things & taking up my time, so I took them both aside & gently scolded them & now she asks away.
She reminds me of a young Mouldy & the five 'W's' and one 'H'. Lol.
Surrey, you're too kind, boss! Lol.
Over the summer we've worked on her, her mum & gran and any other neighbours' fears, Karen.
I've shown them the death-defying trick of the yo-yo wasp and the head shoved among the nasturtiums stunt, but the wasp in each hand brought the house down. Lol.
They're mostly calm now, but there's the occasional backslide over a wasp.
Other than that we're cool.
Mozzies?
Nah, we're made of sterner stuff, Mel.
Try midges & cleggies...they'll make your eyes water, girl!!! Lol.

Don't talk to me about cleggies - I know all about them!

When that probscis enters your skin it feels like a pre-op canula, right?
I've seen a horse run from a cleggie!

I don't blame him! You don't brush off a cleggie, you grab and pull - hard!

Only once it happened to me, on the hand, which is why I was able to make such an obscure comparison, especially the pain that seems bone-deep!
The tsetse fly is reputedly as bad, but I've never seen a horse run from one of those.
Just think, if you let a box of either loose at a horse race meeting.
The spectators would be four lengths in the lead! Lol.

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What, humans v horses with cleggies & tsetse flies used as goads?
Brilliant? Why, thank you, HB! Lol.