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I love bees. And I always wanted to capture them in a picture. I really like this shot. I like the colors and the propotions. I think in some way this picture looks really professional and positive.
ACEITAÇÃO EM SALÃO/CONCURSO DA PHOTOGRAFY SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA):
North Central Insect Photo Salon 2017 (USA)
A bumble bee and a skipper nectar side-by-side on the same purple coneflower on McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas.
As far as flower photography goes, I don't like these blue flowers. They look so scraggly and unkempt compared to the other flowers, even though they have a very nice shade of blue. Under macro conditions, however, they look a bit more orderly - almost like you'd expect a sea anemone to look on land.
I was on a bug hunt when I stopped by these flowers. I didn't see any bugs until I bent down and examined the flowers in greater detail. There were quite a few, and many of them were rather brilliant. This grasshopper nyph [katydid nymph?] was one of them. Its body was a shiny green - quite different from the more bland-colored adults.
Strobist info: I held my FL-50R flash at about an arm's length directly above and slightly to the left, pointed toward the subject, with a diffuser mounted. The flash was fired at medium power, triggered wirelessly via the Olympus wireless system.
Olympus E-520, Zuiko Digital 50mm f/2.0 Macro with Olympus EX-25 extenstion tube to enable 1x magnification (note: I don't recommend this lens combo for insect macros). An Olympus FL-50R was used off-camera for lighting. This photo was manually focused with the aid of the Olympus ME-1 magnifying eyecup; focus was accomplsihed by rocking back and forth... (come now, my left hand was taken up by the flash!)
ISO 100, f/18, hand-held with IS mode 1 enabled. This picture has been cropped to adjust the aspect ratio - some small bits from the top and bottom of the photo were lost, but the magnification has not been digitally altered otherwise. Processed from RAW in Aperture 3.
Cross pollination in Primrose (Primula vulgaris) - the series shows both ‘pin eyed’ and 'thrum eyed' forms of the flower and illustrate the mechanism that ensures cross pollination.
Primula vulgaris (Primrose) has two forms of flower, a situation known as heteromorphy. In the two forms, the styles are of different lengths. If the style reaches to the top of the flower tube, it is the 'pin eyed' form, and the anthers are halfway down the tube. In the other form (known as 'thrum eyed'), the style is halfway down the tube and the anthers reach to the top. Heteromorphy is one example of a mechanism that encourages self-pollination.
When an insect inserts its proboscis into the flower, pollen is deposited in the right place for the style of the other form of the flower - so pollen from a pin eyed flower reaches the stigma of a thrum eyed flower, and vice versa. The stigma of a thrum eyed flower has short papillae whereas the stigma of a pin eyed flower has long papillae.
Pollen grains from a pin eyed flower are small and more likely to stick to the short papillae on the stigma of a thrum eyed flower (than to the longer papillae of a pin eyed flower). The converse occurs with the large pollen grains from a thrum eyed flower.
Even if self-pollination does occur, it rarely leads to fertilisation so that heteromorphy in these plants appears to be associated with self-incompatibility.
This image shows a thrum eyed Primrose flower - plan view
The flower is approximately 30 mm across and 30 mm tall.
Image by John Bebbington FRPS
Pollinator of Platanthera chlorantha; the orchid pollinia are sticked to the eyes of this Noctuid moth.
Focus stack of 80 shots using a reversed Nikkor 24mm at f/5.6 on a 20mm macro ring connected to a Nikon D3s, diffused light with a Nikon SB-800.
I used a Cognisys StackShot and Helicon Focus.
Cross pollination in Primrose (Primula vulgaris) - the series shows both ‘pin eyed’ and 'thrum eyed' forms of the flower and illustrate the mechanism that ensures cross pollination.
Primula vulgaris (Primrose) has two forms of flower, a situation known as heteromorphy. In the two forms, the styles are of different lengths. If the style reaches to the top of the flower tube, it is the 'pin eyed' form, and the anthers are halfway down the tube. In the other form (known as 'thrum eyed'), the style is halfway down the tube and the anthers reach to the top. Heteromorphy is one example of a mechanism that encourages self-pollination.
When an insect inserts its proboscis into the flower, pollen is deposited in the right place for the style of the other form of the flower - so pollen from a pin eyed flower reaches the stigma of a thrum eyed flower, and vice versa. The stigma of a thrum eyed flower has short papillae whereas the stigma of a pin eyed flower has long papillae.
Pollen grains from a pin eyed flower are small and more likely to stick to the short papillae on the stigma of a thrum eyed flower (than to the longer papillae of a pin eyed flower). The converse occurs with the large pollen grains from a thrum eyed flower.
Even if self-pollination does occur, it rarely leads to fertilisation so that heteromorphy in these plants appears to be associated with self-incompatibility.
This image shows a pin eyed Primrose flower - plan view
The flower is approximately 30 mm across and 30 mm tall.
Image by John Bebbington FRPS
Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, and they have an important role in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. Photos: Jon Sullivan and Jack Dykinga
Design © HTM Images, 2011
Bogbean is a perennial plant, that flowers from May to July. The flowers are pollinated by various insects like this shiny little Chequered Hoverfly~Melanostoma scalare
Visitors learn about nocturnal pollinators at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Nighttime Pollinators event. Photo by Blanca Begert.
Bumble Bees are very important pollinators in my area. When you begin to photograph bees you soon notice that many are very hairy. The backs of Bumble Bees are covered with a heavy coat of hair, light in color. Pollen sticks to the hair, so when a Bumble Bee visits another blossom of the same species it passes along some pollen to that blossom, thus fertilizing the plant.
Ong Bumble là côn trùng thụ phấn rất quan trọng trong khu vực của tôi. Khi bạn bắt đầu để chụp ảnh những con ong bạn sớm nhận thấy rằng nhiều người rất nhiều lông. Lưng của Bumble Bees được che phủ bằng một chiếc áo khoác nặng nề của mái tóc, ánh sáng màu. Phấn hoa dính vào tóc, vì vậy khi một Bumble Bee thăm một hoa của cùng một loài nó đi dọc theo một số phấn hoa để hoa đó, vì vậy bón phân cây.
Pollinators and spiders from the Penn State Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Landisville, PA
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This is a picture of the Common Eastern Bumblebee, Bombus impatiens, pollinating the flowers of an azalea bush. This is of the azalea bush in my front yard in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Bees are one of the world’s major pollinators. While other animals help with pollination, bees are much more proficient at it than any other animal. With their large body size and the vibrations caused by their wings, they can shake pollen loose from the flowers. Their furry bodies then pick up the pollen and deposit it on pistols of the next flower visited. Normally, these bushes are full of bumblebees, but due to the extremely cold temperatures this year there were very few to be found. This one was very busy and I had to chase it around for a while in order to get this picture.
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