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I think he was just saying thanks as I had just pulled him from the water butt and placed him on a plant to dry out.
A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. In the early 21st century, only seven species of honey bee are recognised, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically seven to eleven species are recognized. The best known honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey and have been kept by humans for that purpose, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees, which includes the study of honey bees, is known as melittology.
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee", and mellifera is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey for the winter.
Like all honey bees, the western honey bee is eusocial, creating colonies with a single fertile female (or "queen"), many normally non-reproductive females or "workers," and small proportion of fertile males or "drones." Individual colonies can house tens of thousands of bees. Colony activities are organized by complex communication between individuals, through both pheromones and the dance language.
The western honey bee was one of the first domesticated insects, and it is the primary species maintained by beekeepers to this day for both its honey production and pollination activities. With human assistance, the western honey bee now occupies every continent except Antarctica. Because of its wide cultivation, this species is the single most important pollinator for agriculture globally. Honey bees are threatened by pests and diseases, especially the varroa mite and colony collapse disorder.
Western honey bees are an important model organism in scientific studies, particularly in the fields of social evolution, learning, and memory; they are also used in studies of pesticide toxicity, to assess non-target impacts of commercial pesticides.
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I haven't been stung by a bee in years, but I got two bee stings this week. One even flew down my shirt and had me running down the street stripping. Quite a treat for the neighbor ladies I'm sure. ;-)
original photograph from pixabay
pixabay.com/photos/honey-bee-pink-flowers-pollination-740...
Not a Ai
~ A little vibrant colour to shine up a Wednesday Night / THURSDAY ~
Coming soon... to a lens near me!
Thrashing through the fields like a stealthy elephant, I scan everywhere for little movements of insects dodging my glance. Once in my lens... it's mine! lol
Have a wonderful Wednesday Night & THURSDAY my friends around the World.
Thanks you for stopping in and don't forget to smile at yourself sometime today.
as usual, a BIG HELLO from Ottawa, Canada
Tamron LD Di AF 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 Tele-Macro with 62mm filter thread. Some post processing to rotate and crop.
After a grey couple of days there was an unexpected sunny spell late this afternoon, so I grabbed the camera and walked up to where I'd seen the flower bees. This time I had the macro lens - it's much harder to frame and focus a moving target than with the 100-400 I used the other day, but worth it when you succeed.
But so far no females...
There were lots of bees and wasps on the sunny side of a fountain. I presume they were eating the algae that was growing at the edge of the water rather than drinking the water. Thanks for your comments - so they are drinking the water then.
August 2016
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I was chasing bees at first - still trying to work out which kind is which. But actually it was the delicate edges to the comfrey flowers that caught my eye in this photo.
I think it might be a common carder bee.
I took the macro lens out of moth balls today and tried to photograph the bees in our little pond. I used the flash and did not know what I was doing but after taking many photos I sort of worked it out. I put the camera on Manual, exposed for the background. I then put the Flash on Manual and dialled it down until the bee was not blown out. If anyone has any extra tips for me about how to photograph insects I would love it. This is new for me. Not even sure if this is how you are supposed to use flash for macro.