OneGuyFromBarlick

He must be on something Maz You are all thinking too far outside the box. It's a small hole in the ground, question is what is down the hole?

Before anyone says it, it is not a Hobbit!

Following the trippy references... Primordium and hyphae from a mycelium?

Watch you language please David

I think he's struck oil?

Panny....she says on bended knee, palms upturned...will it change our lives to know what lays beneath a bit of old soil?
Is it of scientific, mythological or moral value?
Will we need our opposable thumbs to appreciate it?

David Whipp wrote:Following the trippy references... Primordium and hyphae from a mycelium?

No

Maz - No, Scientific (I suppose) and No

It's a good thing to have next to the fruit bushes though.

Unseen fruit bat?
I did see a foxy little face somewhere along the way...Febby said it was a truffle...but I couldn't see it. Don't think truffles have foxy little faces with sharp teeth.
Should I have insisted I didn't imagine things? ( sometimes one has to give in to maintain peace)

Is it a bees nest?

Wendy has it! We have inherited a Bumble Bee nest, we first saw it about a week ago and it looks like the lady has now taken up residence. She will be enlarging the nest where she will produce a small brood of about 50. They only live for a year so a new queen will be created at some point along the lifespan.

I will try and get a photograph if I can we have a Bees and Wasp identification sheet so we should be able to see which genus she belongs to.

Sorry, it still just looks like dirt to me.

It is just dirt Liz but a void created under turned soil has become the home for the Bumble Bee which create their nests in the earth in suitable holes and cracks.

If it quacks like a duck...

You seem to like holes.... Try this one, my mate Roger Paas with a hole and a small bomb. What's going on?

Killing something that is affecting his lawn, be it gophers, beetles or termites ?

A mole scarer?

Oh God! That Maz has got it straight off! You're right Maz but not killing, just scaring off. The bomb is a smoke generator and the theory is you scare the gophers off into your neighbour's garden!
I thought I could relax, now I have to think of another!
It's a Bee picture! Not really a mystery in itself, some of you may remember this pic of my mate Bee and me having dinner together. Question is, what ethnic origin would you say Bee is? (Eat your hearts out Lads!)

Thai. ?, i note the Guinness sign also

American Indian.

On second thought, can I change my choice to Hawiian?

Korean / American Korean ?

South East Asia. Vietnamese ?

Goat?

Second thoughts: dressed like that in a foreign land he just has to be a redneck from Alabama, same as his shirt says.

Laplander - and that's Santa?

SE Asia is getting warm, the answer is esoteric and interesting.
See if this helps, Bee and her sisters in national dress. (I don't know where they got their looks.... Why don't we have national dress as distinctive as this?)

I thought you was asking about the male. This changes my thoughts. Now where have I seen girls like this in ethnic costumes? LOL.

judging by the houses in the background they are definitely a long way from home.

My niece has been in China recently, and she took a very similar photo whilst on a Yangtze River cruise...

Both photos contain beautiful women.
Just love the detail in the costumes.
( head gear is very reminiscent of lamp shades, but apart from that I find their outfits attractive - particularly in Stanley's pic)