Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
--Paul McCartney 

When Paul McCartney of The Beatles wrote "Let It Be," released in 1970, he wasn't writing about honey bees.

No, he was actually recounting what his mother (who died when he was 14) told him in a dream. In real life, McCartney and his fellow musicians were clashing. In the dream, his mother soothed him: "It will be all right, just let it be."

But sometimes you just can't let it be.

Or bee.

We recently encountered an industrious honey bee nectaring catmint (Nepeta) in our yard. A gorgeous bee. Here she is buzzing from flower to flower, sipping nectar here, sipping nectar there, and then she makes a huge mistake: she buzzes right into the web of a cunning garden spider. As she struggles to free herself, the spider begins approaching her.  

We captured the spider/honey bee scenario with our digital camera--four frames in one second--and then released her.

Not going to be a wrap today.

We let her "bee."