Brightly Black. Tropical Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa latipes, on Calotropis gigantea, Crown Flower, Setangi Beach, Lombok, Indonesia
The day was bright but my thoughts were with a Sad Rite halfway around the Globe. And Nature herself came to my aid.
Here's an amazingly Black Xylocopa latipes, a Tropical Carpenter Bee, no doubt a descendant of www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/8986047224/in/photolis.... She's taking a nibble at the bottom of the 'crown' of Calotropis gigantea, Crown Flower.
Carpenters are necessary for the Sad Ceremony on my mind, and so are Flowers; this Tropical Milkweed is used in such Hindu Rites on Bali and Lombok as a Good Omen.
Brightly Black. Tropical Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa latipes, on Calotropis gigantea, Crown Flower, Setangi Beach, Lombok, Indonesia
The day was bright but my thoughts were with a Sad Rite halfway around the Globe. And Nature herself came to my aid.
Here's an amazingly Black Xylocopa latipes, a Tropical Carpenter Bee, no doubt a descendant of www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/8986047224/in/photolis.... She's taking a nibble at the bottom of the 'crown' of Calotropis gigantea, Crown Flower.
Carpenters are necessary for the Sad Ceremony on my mind, and so are Flowers; this Tropical Milkweed is used in such Hindu Rites on Bali and Lombok as a Good Omen.