At around 1:00pm, I’ve finished raking the mostly eucalyptus seeds, along with leaves, branches, twigs, dust and other debris. At 1:05pm, another city utility truck of white parked at the corner. Two blocks ahead, there was the similar city van of white parked. Both vehicles left the scene as soon as I wrapped up my work at around 1:15pm.
While rolling the green electrical cord into its plastic orange reel, I spotted a bumble bee on the hot cement. Its left wing as been slightly clipped on the tip. I tried scooping it up in Paw’s 30-year old white, plastic funnel for filling up his lawn mower with gasoline. I saw how it flapped its wings fast inside the funnel as I quickly dropped it to our lemon tree. Hope it doesn’t make the wood its new home.
Addendum: The black bumblebee has two horizon stripes of yellow across its back – one near the head and near the rear end. The antennas move like a wasp/hornet. And the little wings are broad and in pairs.
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