Autor: Jaroslav Appletauer

Apis mellifera worker (Hym. Apidae) foraging on Tradescantia pallida 'Purpurea' (Commelinaceae), 25.iii.2009, Kisantu (DRCongo). Thanks to L Pauwels & P Latham for the ID of the plant!

Attività del 15/06/2013

Webmaster Central blog of the Google has finally announced the vigin release of the Webmaster Tools API via it blog.[its ironical to find solar cooker and cooking related title of the post :) ].The supported features in the first version of the Webmaster Tools API are the following:

at first sight I mistook this rather small bee for an Andrena. Hence the name!

Westliche Honigbiene (Apis mellifera)

(c) Rainer Ziebarth

Location: Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay

abeja común capturada en su labor diaria como polinizadora.

Attività del 15/06/2013

Apis florea worker (Hym. Apidae) collecting pink pollen on a coriander inflorescence, 20.iii.2015, Bamei Village, Yunnan Province, China.

e20963a. European bee.

More about this tree on the wildfacts sheets on wildsingapore.

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Apis mellifera (L'abeille domestique) - Apidae

Peyruis 01/04/09

This is Api Himal, the other famous 7000m peak of Humla, which is more or less centre in the last photo.

Apis andreniformis worker (Hym. Apidae), 4.v.2011, Yexianggu (Wild Elephant Valley), Yunnan, China.

D7100 + Tamron 90mm VC USD f:2.8 + SB900 strobe

Autor: Jaroslav Appletauer

this one is a little more me than the original black and white I posted...I like both, but the other just wasn't my style.

This is for JPG Magazine's Photo Challenge: Silhouettes

Avicennia marina var. rumphiana

The whole plant

Autor: Jaroslav Appletauer

... se cache du soleil, du vent et des vagues qui lui font peur.

Asian Honey Bee