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This yellow butterfly was caught in the act of feeding on this flower -- and transferring pollen -- in a field in New Bern, North Carolina. As challenged -- this was #ShotFromAbove for #FlickrFriday. HFF.
This looks to be a Cloudless Sulpher (Phoebis sennae) butterfly.
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Golden Northern Bumble Bee
Since its National Pollinator Week and yesterday I posted the Zebra Swallowtail, time to post something else to give you the creeps ;) The GNBB is one of several bumble bee species found in MO. Notice how the abdomen is almost completely yellow, as opposed to the 'normal' black we see. Also remember, bumble bees are fuzzy, carpenter bees are shiny. They are a little more weary of people being around, it took several days of chasing to finally get this one to hang around for a bit to shoot. They feed rapidly on the flowers, but you can see how this one has little bits of pollen ALL over itself, and when it goes to another flower, it drops off and thus we get more flowers. I hope to start seeing these again in another month or so when everything is really going full bore, however the flower garden right now is exploding. Almost a shame to be wasting the blooms
On Prince's Plume, Stanleya pinnata,
On a steep slope in the Temblor Mountains,
Carrizo Plain National Monument,
Eastern San Luis Obispo Co., California
There were many, many of these moths in several disparate habitats and locations and we wondered if they were also everywhere in between. (See also the adjacent photo taken 10 miles away.)
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Not just Bees pollinating the flowers, flies seem to also do their job this time of year when bees are still feeling the cold.
This is strange as the snakes and lizards are out already, birds making nests and even feeding babies with early spring in the southern hemisphere.
I was setting up for focus stacking on this image, which proved to be no easy task with the peony moving slightly in a soft breeze. Before I could get too far, this busy little pollinator flew into the scene and right back out again. I didn't quite manage to get all of him in focus because of the shallow f stop but liked the outcome of this monochrome edit.
There are only a few wild roses left on the bushes in the front hill garden that the pollinators can enjoy and gather pollen from.
Canon EOS RP with an EF to RP adapter and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM lens and processed in LIghtroom Classic.
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These shots were both taken last year, i havent seen any of them this year yet but i do hope they return. I love how the yellow really shows off the segmentation of their bodies.