mi piace la menta

Honeybees do like them mint blossoms =) Can't tell which mint, btw, because all the fancy Mentha suaveolens hybrids (apple, pineapple, etc.) still have the same basic appearance and blossoms & differ only in fragrance/aroma and, of course, taste. IOW, you'd have to rub the leaves & smell to know which mint you're dealing with =) I will say, though, that based on the visible foliage, I don't believe it to be Mentha suaveolens -- the leaves are too smooth. Though, I'm also not convinced the visible foliage doesn't belong to some vine that's clambered onto the mint...

Anyway, nice capture!

On another note, we're also seeing a marked decline in pollinators this year =/... No decline in mosquitos, though =|

many thanks Fizzie, I'll go back to taste the leaves ;-)
And yes, the mosquitos seem not so involved in the decline !

yes there was a convolvulus clambered onto this plant, the leaves of the mint are visible only in the picture added in the note.

Yeah, they do look like classic mint leaves of that there's no doubt.... Unfortunately, the flowers on the vast majority of mints don't help much with ID -- neither do foliage details in many cases (with a few exceptions like chocolate mint, peppermint, sweet mint... but cvs. of sweet mint can only be ID'd via smell &/or taste). There are some cvs. you can narrow down by appearance because they only come in bi-color leaf form, but even that gets more tricky with each passing whim ;) Why classic wild mint wasn't good enough, I dunno =P I mean, really.... When my grandma (who stilled lived off the land) wanted to spice up her mint tea with apples or something like that, she'd cut a slice of apple and add it to the tea, not go out & cross an apple tree with her weedy (and abundant) mint plants ;) And some of them fancy hybrids don't even taste diff't, despite smelling diff't... I grew chocolate mint for a few years and no one (myself included) could taste the difference, though the leaves did have a faint chocolate smell to them, from reg. sweet mint. Once I had enough with the fancy mint not surviving winters where its non-hybrid cousin was growing like a weed, I called it quits and stuck with the reg. mint with a small cube of chocolate on the side =)

Gorgeous flowers and photo.

SUPERB