Wordless Wednesday – Allow your photo(s) to tell the story
The following images are courtesy of and shared with permission of Basil Boer, a photography friend, from Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa.
A male Xylocopa caffra is a male carpenter bee that is uniform and lacks a stinger. Males are typically yellowish-green to greenish-yellow and have a yellow or white face. They are often seen hovering near nests to guard them from other flying insects, which they do aggressively but without malice, as they are incapable of stinging


Come, participate, and join us weekly at our very own #WordlessWednesday #Photography. Let your photos do the talking. (Words are also welcome.) The linkup will always start on Wednesday at 2:15 a.m. and end on Saturday at 8:00 a.m.
If you’d like to join in, check out my other #WordlessWednesday posts here: Wordless Wednesday (Words also welcome).
Feel free to drop a link to your own #WordlessWednesday post in the comments. I’d love you to stop by and leave a comment!
P.S. All the photos in my #WordlessWednesday #Photography posts were taken by my husband or me.
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You are clever! These are fantastic! (Also I got a 404 when I followed the link in the linky)
Hi Lydia, thanks for the compliment. Sorry about the error, here we go: https://esmesalon.com/es-98-wordlesswednesday-words-welcome/ Not sure what’s up I will check it out.
Update: Found the culprit, and fixed it, thanks for letting me know.
Beautiful bees. I love all things bees. We planted lots of wonderful plants that bees love this year. It’s heartwarming to see so many enjoy the plants.
Thank you for hosting the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday and rest of the week. Thank you for all you do, Esme. ♥
That’s amazing that you take care of the bees and planted some ‘food’ for them.
Bees are fascinating creatures!
They sure are interesting and this carpenter bee specially as they are incapable of stinging