Green-eyed Flower Bee
Green-eyed Flower Bee / anthophora bimaculata. Minsmere, Suffolk. 22/07/20.
My all-time favourite bee species and I only get to see them on the Suffolk coast. They are diminutive in size, ear-splitting in 'hum volume' and have the most beautiful eyes of any UK invertebrate I've ever seen.
(View large and you will see the appeal!)
This pollen-laden male had just returned to it's sealed nest burrow and was scraping back grains of sand with it's back legs. I lay inches away with my macro lens focussed on the action. By using a slow shutter speed, I managed to capture some motion blur at the bee's rear end, whilst securing sharp detail of his wonderful eye.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Green-eyed Flower Bee
Green-eyed Flower Bee / anthophora bimaculata. Minsmere, Suffolk. 22/07/20.
My all-time favourite bee species and I only get to see them on the Suffolk coast. They are diminutive in size, ear-splitting in 'hum volume' and have the most beautiful eyes of any UK invertebrate I've ever seen.
(View large and you will see the appeal!)
This pollen-laden male had just returned to it's sealed nest burrow and was scraping back grains of sand with it's back legs. I lay inches away with my macro lens focussed on the action. By using a slow shutter speed, I managed to capture some motion blur at the bee's rear end, whilst securing sharp detail of his wonderful eye.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.