Bees on a bottlebrush tree

[nibot]

Bees on a bottlebrush tree on my walk to school.

By the way, have you heard about the bees? They are dying. I have only one datapoint: my own backyard beehive in Orange County was discovered dead and eaten by wax moths a couple months ago.

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[aepfelx.livejournal.com]

DUDE. My folks and I have been calling these "bottlebrush trees" (in Russian literal translation) ever since we first saw one 14 yrs ago (actually, now that i think about, this might've even been the same one that you photographed, or at least somewhere really nearby).

I had no idea that's what they're really called!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia agrees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlebrush)!