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I was too slow zooming into the actual mating but this happened prior to copulation. I believe it is the ritual feeding of the female by the male. I slowed the action down to 0.25 speed because it all happened rather fast as all things Rainbow Bee-eater do. Hope you enjoy.
There are a lot of RBEs around Emily Gap at the moment around sunset and I've had fun trying to catch some of the action on video clip ... youtu.be/hhrhLb1EDcY
They are such delightful birds to try and photograph.
Bee photos, these are becoming increasingly hard to get, especially here in Essex. Many of the gardens I visit have had a real decrease in numbers. On my walks into the countryside Buddleja, Thistle and other wild flowers there is hardly anything. Is there a cure?
A female Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) at a nesting aggregation in Shropshire today. There were dozens of them (mainly females) digging burrows and returning with full pollen loads. A pleasure to watch!
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
Queen Bee — The bee marked in yellow is this hive's queen (roughly dead center in this image). There is usually only one queen in a hive, which the worker honeybees feed, follow, and protect. Society needs healthy bees and other insects to pollinate crops, but land use changes that decrease flower abundance can affect bee health and pollination services. Midwestern states are losing native grasslands and conservation lands that historically have provided abundant flowers for pollinators. The USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center partners and works closely with professional beekeepers in North Dakota to evaluate what plant species honey bees forage on and when.
Photo credit: Marisa Lubeck, USGS.
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.
Made a brief visit to the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, USA on September 19, 2017. Fun to see the late summer blooms!
Help - I've run out of fuel - a honey bee rescue. A rather tired looking honey bee sitting on a potentilla flower totally unable to fly. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene
I'm lucky to have this beautiful female Misumena in my garden.
I will try to keep track of her through the rest of the summer to see if she changes colour.
I am quite experienced at looking for these crab spiders on the Oxe-eye daisies. But even though I saw her yesterday on this flower, I didn't see her today, even though she was there. For a while, all I noticed was the bee.
Bee working
At lunch break and found a bush of flowers with bees and bug working on their lunch.
Sony a3000 + SEL55210 + Raynox 150 @ f/16 210mm 1/125 sec ISO 800
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center.
16 March 2019. Seagoville, Texas. Kaufman County.
Nikon D500. Nikkor AF-S 300mm f4E ED PF VR + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(420mm) f7.1 @ 1/5000 sec. ISO 1100.