Nature’s amazing spectacle

In the frosty part of the Midlands where I live you have to plant your potatoes quite late. I have learnt to wait until April is well established.

I finished the job the other day and sat down in the sunshine for a rest after the hard labour. I watched a robin closely examining the freshly turned soil and large queen bumble bees visiting the dandelion flowers that the sunshine had opened.

It struck me that this relationship between the bumble bee and the dandelion is an example of an extraordinary evolutionary miracle.