The artichokes are doing great this year
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The artichokes are doing great this year. Blossoming into their violet colours, putting up a show with their size and vigor, they are now attracting bees, bumblebees and this new visitor!
It is the violet carpenter bee / abelha carpinteira violeta - a huge and very shinny pollinator.
#abelhacarpinteira
#carpenterbee
#polinators
#artichoke
#permaculture
#alcachofravioleta
#alcachofra
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