Buzzy bees and barbeque time

It was another lovely day in paradise.  The sun was shining and the bees were buzzing.  They love our large native flowering tree, covered in pretty white blossoms.   As well as bees being very fond of our tree, it is also very attractive to the giant puriri moth.  The caterpillars climb the tree and bore into the trunk, emerging through the large holes some time later as giant green moths.  See our earlier post about the life of these moths here.

Flowering native tree covered in bees

Our colourful fuchsia bush also had plenty of bees visiting the flowers.  These industrious little insects crawl inside one flower after another in search of nectar.

Fuchsia bush covered in flowers and bees

All this beautiful weather was too good to waste so we decided to cook our meat on the barbeque on the back deck.  Our marinated pork chops smelt divine as they sizzled away, and tasted even better.  We just love our Kiwi summer!

  Robin cooking pork chops