In a flower pot where the flowers had bloomed during the summer, we were regularly visited by a little bee. The bee would crawl in under a leaf at the side of the pot, be gone for a short while and then “buzz off” only to return shortly after. A ground bee, was making a perfectly tubular tunnel in the earth in the flower pot. We noticed, after a while, that it had begun to traipse in with bits of leaves. Renovating perhaps? Some of the pieces were as big if not bigger than the bee itself! And what in the world was it building in there? The month of July and August passed as did the flower in the pot and we thought no more of it. The other day, since I was tired of looking at a lovely flower pot filled with nothing but earth and dried up summer blooms, I bought a lovely white late summer chrysanthemum to brighten things up. As I was loosening the earth in the pot I cast my thoughts back to those lovely warm, no, hot days of summer and remembered our little visiting busy bee. I cleared the earth carefully from the side it kept visiting and I found small packets made of leaves. They looked like little bullets, flat on the one end and rounded at the other and the leaves were tightly rolled around something. I carefully pulled one apart and inside was a precious little larve – the beginnings of a bee! And there were so many little bullets! That little bee had been very, very diligent in its mission. It had certainly done it’s bit to ensure the survival of the species! Curiously enough, a few days before we had seen a documentary about the bee – how important these little fellas are to us humans and what we can do in our own back gardens to help them survive – so I put the little bee-lings that I had unintentionally disturbed, back along the side of our flower pot, covered them with earth and planted my chrysanthemum alongside them. It will be exciting to see them crawl out of the pot when spring heralds its return. I hope they survive the cold. I trust in mother nature, she’s been looking after earth’s creatures for a very long time, so I am sure that there will be a swarm of small pollen spreading bees taking flight from the edge of our flower pot come spring. Hope they just buzz off! 🐝🍯❤️