I'd never heard of a Canada thistle until now but it looks like it. Add it to the wonderful species named after our wonderful land. Sheesh!
Apparently they're quite the nasty weed. Thanks for the comment - and for the botany lesson! Cheers, frank On 18 August, 2015 5:00:51 PM EDT, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >Nice one, Frank. Is that a Canada Thistle? > >On 8/17/2015 7:53 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> Yeah, I know, it sounds like an English pub. Couldn't resist: >> >> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/08/bumblebee-and-thistle.html >> >> BTW those more-or-less parallel white lines on the upper right are a >> spider web, which the bee just ploughed right through. Takes more >than >> a web to get between a bumblebee and her nectar, I guess. >> >> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> cheers, >> >> frank >> > > >--- >This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
