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(173/365) Our Lupins are covered in Honey bees, they not "our" bees sadly, we sold our hives a couple of years ago but a lady who lives about 1/2 a mile away has hives in her garden & her bees are happy to visit our garden HBBBT!
Lens: EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Honeybees visiting mountain mint in my pollinator garden. Backyard photography.
La pollinisation est au cœur de la nature et de ses processus de reproduction.
Pollination is at the heart of nature and its reproductive processes.
After engaging in a very successful pollen-gathering session, a bee cautiously emerges from the bright flower of a Prickly Pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) in the Sonoran Desert, Santa Rita Experimental Range, Arizona. As I sat there with the camera, it really did appear to be watching me, gauging the level of risk that I might pose. Once I was deemed suitably harmless, or maybe it got desperate?, it was off to another destination.
Thanks for your visits and comments, and happy belated Earth Day!
Some fifty species of bees and wasps, thirty species of fly, thirty species of butterflies and moths and several beetles have been recorded as visiting the flowers,[
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the flower´s name, ixia, comes from the Greek..meaning bird lime...a reference to it´s sweet sap..a favorite of pollinators
A tighter crop on a bee working the bulbines today than the previous shot. Maybe the same individual, maybe not. Same technique--focus, wait, fire a burst of shots when a bee showed up. 33mm extension tube.
People mindlessly hate wasps because of their sting, but they do have an important role in the environment.
I agree that constraints help spur creativity. Today I ended up playing with a bunch of different subjects but came back to work on my bees. Again working close up with the 36mm extension tube on my 100mm macro lens. There was a bit of sunlight I was able to coax onto this large pumpkin blossom. The bees in this blossom were in like a drunken stupor and didn't move like the others I encountered. They were less inclined to move much which made it easier to work. I love the hairy details of the blossom and the balls of pollen on the bees legs.
Thanks for visiting, hope you aren't getting bored or grossed out by all of the bees. I'm a big fan of bees but not wasps, yellow jackets, earwigs, spiders, flies, or mice. Oh, and update on the mice, we did catch one in a trap. Feeling a bit better about life but just wish all the pests would stay outside and I wouldn't have to be bothered with them.