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The front faces the towering flood wall on West Front Street. It's the last house on street before the flood wall turns southward into a parking lot. Despite it's foundation issues and its lack of an Ohio River view, the house is beautifully decorated and the yard has some great plantings. The Ohio River Valley has a long history of devastating floods and a lot of sacrifices were made to accommodate the flood wall.
Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
At the moment the rescue group I help out have ben inundated with kittens that we have to say no at the moment due to not having enough room or carers. so I hope little Mason finds a home soon.
*This is not one of the tabby brothers but another kitten from another litter.
I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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Red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) are excellent pollinators and are solitary in nature. Females guard their own cells from other Mason bees, but are safe to be around as long as you respect their space. They form mud capsules around their eggs, and pack each cell full of pollen.
Replaced by 2 "newer" old units these two Adrian & Blissfield GP9's are parked outside at the shop in Mason, Michigan with an uncertain future - January 14, 2023
Mason was one of a four-kitten litter gifted to us in 2005 by a little pregnant stray we named Coconut. Sixteen years of wonderful memories would follow. Thank you, Coconut.
50mm, f/2, AI Nikkor
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
On the way to the falls I found these little falls. Masons Falls is not accessible to the bottom, yet! That's for another day when I have more time, equipment and support in the mean time this will have to do...
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: After photographing this mason bee in my lavender I turned it loose in a plant on my patio while I went to have lunch. Evidently the little guy got active and had lunch as well, because this is how I found him later on that same afternoon. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering).
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black. I n post I used Topaz Labs Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity.
Fuji X-E1, Fuji 18mm lens. Mason's Yard is the location of The Scotch of St. James club, where Yoko Ono and John Lennon partied after (or before - it's unclear) they met at the Indica Gallery.
Mason, 2005-2021, was the last living of a four kitten litter. 50mm, 1.4, Olympus G. Zuiko, Auto-S manual focus lens.
Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
This is Baby Mason. He was born about a month early so his lungs were "wet" so he has the feeding tubes in and is in NICU. Other than this is healthy and should be fine and be able to go home in the next week.
The first male Red Mason bee of the year in our garden on the bee hotel. The Red Mason Bees are solitary bees that live in aggregations, but each bee is working for itself. They use holes such as hollow plant stems, or holes in walls and wood to lay their eggs. Each female bee provisions the cavity with pollen, and when she has collected enough she will lay an egg and seal the nest chamber. Mason Bees seal the entrance with mud. When the egg hatches, the tiny 1.5mm larvae eats the stored pollen. The larvae pupate in the late summer and overwinter as fully developed adults, wrapped up in a protective cocoon. Red Mason Bees have a single flight period, from spring usually coinciding with the flowering of Apple Blossom. The male Red Mason bees emerge first and tend to wait in the area waiting for the females to emerge. The females tend to emerge anywhere between several days to two weeks after the first male.
A view along Mason Spur, on the south side of Mount Morning, Antarctica. This scene takes in volcanic rocks of Windscoop Bluff, in the centre, with Minna Bluff on the skyline beyond the Eady Glacier. Mount Discovery is the distant ice-clad peak at far left and the flat area to the right is the Ross Ice Shelf. Three photo composite stitch.
Wall Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus sp - new to me!) bringing a caterpillar into its nest in the garden wall. I've watched it do this several times but finally got a photo. The caterpillar will come to a gruesome end when it is walled in with a wasp egg to provide food for the emerging larva!
Mason Verger as he appears in Season 3 of Hannibal. The wheel chair is my design, though I used Dylan's idea for the katannas as arm rests. THis was painted by me.
Motorwagen 727 snelt langs de hoofdweg van Mason City naar Clear Lake. Het trolleywieltje ratelt langs de bovenleiding en het trolleykoord hangt strak achter het rijtuig. Op de interurban-lijn vanuit Mason City bestaat wel regulier goederenvervoer maar sinds 1936 is er geen reizigersdienst meer. De vierassige motorwagen is echter prima in haar element. De wagen is onderweg met leden van de lokale kamer van koophandel. Ondanks dat de motorwagen een in 1926 door de Cincinnati Car Company gebouwde veteraan is, is het het jongste tractievoertuig uit het bestand van de maatschappij. De dagelijks voor het goederenvervoer ingezette locomotieven zijn ieder nog een paar jaar ouder!
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Mason Lake is a pretty lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, reached by hiking the Ira Spring Trail from Interstate 90 east of Seattle. I camped there for a night and took this picture while sitting on a rock enjoying the evening light.
The bad weather is really making it tough for the local pollinators. I was shooting this waterlogged Mason Bee when he started cleaning the water off of his fur.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200 due to Highlight Tone Priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT ("A" flash head on a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.