Bee-eaters of the World: A Field Guide
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A very busy honey bee on a cone flower taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
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Bee photos, these are becoming increasingly hard to get, especially here in Essex. Many of the gardens I visit have had a real decrease in numbers. On my walks into the countryside Buddleja, Thistle and other wild flowers there is hardly anything. Is there a cure?
Bumble Bee () collecting pollen and nectar from flowers along the valley of the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
This is another of at least three varieties of Bumble bees on the flowers in the area.
22 August, 2017.
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During a walk today, it seemed that I saw more bees busily gathering pollen.Perhaps some scientist were correct when they studied bees, finding the bees spent more time out of the hive foraging and stopped work later in the afternoon when the following day proved to be rainy rather than sunny.They seemed to be responding to cues such as changes in humidity, temperature and barometric pressure that preceded rainstorms.
www.newscientist.com/article/2075606-honeybees-know-its-g...
A spontaneous trip to capture fog didn't work out, but I did capture a bee getting a morning drink on the droplets left behind on this pink rose.
Native Masked Bee (Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus)) male
Despite them being late appearing this season I have already seen more of the Masked Bees than all of last season.
This one was enjoying a Dandelion.
During my recent encounter with these Bee Eater I was fortunately to have many keepers of the fight shots. I shoot these at s1/4000, f4 to 5.6, CAF with Subject detection in Sequential Mode of 25 fps or SH2. Taking off or landing shoots were shot with ProCapture SH2.
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Queen Anne's Lace blossoms such as this one are compound flowers made up of many tiny white flowers arranged in a flat-topped cluster. The nectar is located at the base of the tiny flowers, which is ideal for pollinators with short proboscises like the honey bee you see here.
Happy Wing Wednesday
I went looking for wild orchids again today, and spotted one that I didn't dare to look for... bee orchids are always such a treat to find. Although their blossoms look quite noticeable being so small they're easy to miss.
Carpenter Bee. Photographed in Maryland.
A focus stack of 2 photos, shot handheld. Canon 80D, Canon 65mm MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set 1/32 power.