A Cotswold Year - Charting the seasons in the South Cotswolds


Thursday 21 June 2012

Bee Orchid


The bee orchid bears an uncanny resemblance to a bee sitting on a flower and some say it attracts other bees to pollinate it but in Britain they are self pollinating.
They occur on limestone grassland and sometimes in large numbers on disturbed soil.

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