Some images of June’s flora…
Wild Bergamot with Bumble Bee.
Butterfly Weed with Bumble Bee.
Lotus in early June.
Open Lotus flower with seed head in center.
Maturing seed head of Lotus.
Rudbeckia or Black-eyed Susan.
Pickerelweed.
Ripening Blackberry.
Buttonbush.
Queen Anne's Lace with White-margined Burrower Bugs.
Trumpet Vine or Trumpet Creeper.
Trumpet Vine with ant inspecting the bell of the trumpet.
What have you seen?
Do you happen to have a good home remedy for bee stings? My husband has taken up bee keeping and I think I might need it…
The best remedy is to avoid being stung, be nice to the bees. But, if you’re involved in bee keeping, even by marriage, there’s probably no way to avoid the inevitable.
Personally, I’ve used mud or wet sand applied directly to the sting, it’s always seemed to help relieve the initial pain, at least in my mind.
Here’s a link to what others have tried:
http://www.grannymed.com/meds/bee-sting.aspx
As you can see (if you clicked the link), everybody’s got a remedy. By the way, although most of the remedies on the above link look harmless enough, I don’t recommend or endorse any of them.
Good luck!
Greg, your Lotus photographs are lovely. Are the plants a native species? Also, have you seen yellow butterfly weed? I have seen it growing in Chatham Co.
There is a native lotus, but the one in the Wetlands is not that one, it’s an Asian variety.
I haven’t seen any wild growing “yellow” butterfly weed, but have seen it in gardens. Does it tend to attract more, or fewer, insects than the orange variety?