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" Honey bees make honey from pollen and nectar collected from flowers...They live in large colonies with one queen, many sterile females workers and some male drones...
In the wild honey bees nest in hollow trees...
When a new queen emerges, she embarks on a mating flight... On returning to her hive, with help from the workers, she kills the failing, old queen...Alternatively, before the new queen emerges, the old queen may leave with a swarm of workers to form a new colony..."
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Some lovely flowers we have in the front garden, These flowers are highly attractive to the bees. We always have at least 10 bees swarming around the flowers throughout the day.
A very small iridescent Butterfly, nectaring on Jack by the Hedge, taken in Norfolk.
Not a macro image, taken with a Nikon 300mm F4 PF + 1.4 TC.
This is the first year I've managed to photograph one that isn't tatty / damaged.
During a brief cloudy spell, in Norfolk. Not much of it in focus, but, at least the eye is. Not a true macro image, taken with the Nikon 300mm F4 PF + 1.4 TC. ISO 1000 , no noise reduction added in camera or post processing.
A female olive-backed sunbird (cinnyris jugularis) probing a flower for nectar. Photographed near Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.
A gold dust day gecko looks bejeweled as it laps nectar from a red ginger bract. This gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) is a diurnal species that feeds on insects and other invertebrates, and obviously enjoys nectar. Like other geckos, they lack eyelids and use their tongue to clean the transparent plate covering their eyes.
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Initially my plan was quite differently, carrying the heavy 150-600, but the catch of the day was done with the Macro function of the standard lens.
This Australian parrot is a Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) and it is using its bristle brush tongue to extract sweet sticky nectar and pollen from within the flowers of a 'Corymbia' Summer Red (formerly Eucalyptus).
Photographed in Wattle Grove, Sydney, Australia.
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A male Green Thorntail Hummingbird extracts nectar. This wide ranging hummingbird is small and will frequent feeders. There are many of these shimmering green hummingbirds at Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica.
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I am pretty sure this is a female ruby-throated hummingbird. I have had 6 around lately. I am taking advantage of the time they have left before they fly south for the winter. It would be fascinating to know where this one chooses to spend the winter. I love listening to them chatter to each other.