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This bee eater has just caught a red admiral and was happy to proudly display his trophy before eating it
Bee spotted in Southsea, gorging itself of lots of lovely pollen!! So busy was he that I was able to get loads of photos of him going about his business and he didn't care! This was the best of the lot...
Taken with Canon 7D + Zeiss 100mm Macro lens.
taken 7/28/14, eastern US 25425
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
Albert Einstein
I haven't seen many butterflies this year but am finding all types of bees. This bee has a rusty patch on his/her back so I am thinking it is a kind of Bumble Bee. There are so many types and hard to ID and I know so little about them. Those and Honey Bees are on the decline for many different reasons, without them we don't eat. They are major pollinators.
Enjoy your weekend everyone.
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okay, technically no bee in the shot, and only one butterfly. But it is bee balm, and they were there
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yeah yeah, better in 'L'
F10.0 - 1/100 - ISO 100 - MT-24EX (Diffuser)
I’ve never managed to get this close to a bee before.
Was an amazing experience … the bee was rather cooperative.
Yes I used Fractalius to enhance a bit :-)
If I am lucky, I see a few of these lovely bee-mimics in late spring, resting on vegetation in woodlands. Members of genus Laphria are difficult to identify to the species level. However this one appears to be Laphria flavicollis, see:
"Laphria flavicollis has long, straw yellow hairs on the scutellum. L. virginica always shows shorter, black scutellar bristles.-BC"
You can see the yellow hairs projecting from the scutellum in an image or two from this series.
Taken in our garden in Oxfordshire. Bees love coming to drink from our little water feature so when it's sunny there is always a steady stream of bees to photograph. Today I had a few wasps visiting too!
Photos taken with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens plus unbranded screw-on wide angled attachment
Clever bumble bees. Having tried the Mk1 bee feeder - a milkbottle top with some foam stuck on top of a cane with honey/sugar syrup in it. I've been thinking of how to overcome the inevitable problem that ants eventually find it and take it over. Well saw a small animal water feeder in the supermarket that hangs down. Stuck a couple of pieces of Velcro either side of the nozzle for grip and put some honey sugar syrup inside. Hung it up in a bush in the evening and next morning the bumble bees had it all worked out and were hanging off the nozzle feeding. I expect the ants will eventually work out how to get it but I was impressed that the bees worked it out so fast.