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Out for Afternoon Tea with friends and spotted this in the car park, I had to get a little too close for comfort, but the 3 large wines I had were a big help! And of course looking through the lens as I got close and ignoring the buzzing/flying....too good a shot to miss.
Seiyou (Oushu)-Mitsu-Bachi, 西洋（欧州）蜜蜂, Common Honey Bee, Apis mellifera, on Buta-Kusa (Tanpopo-Modoki), 豚草（蒲公英擬）, Hairy Catsear, Hypochaeris radicata
Both of the bee and the flower are immigrant from Europe. The terrain vehicle experimental field in my work is now nearly pure yellow by this flower and the bee is booming around gathering nectar. It is fun to sit amid the field blown in the spring wind, watch and here them busy flying and shoot them by camera (^_^)
The change of the vegetation of this field is interesting. Until 2 years ago, it had been covered with Sei-Taka-Awa-Dachi-Sou, 背高泡立草、Canada goldenrod, Solidago canadensis var. scabra (=Solidago altissima) from North America, but during last year it had been quickly conquered by this European plant.
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, May 2007
NikonD70s/MicroNikkor60mm
As i was hiding in the bushes today hoping to see a possible fantasy come true ( don't ask ) I saw this cool colored bee really attacking this plant ... of course I only had the 400 mm but it came out rather nicely I find ...
The male has a tuft of white hairs on his head, not visible in this photo, they are a key for identification.
In my garden Stafford UK 4th May 2016
questa giovane ape ha il compito di stipare il polline nelle celle del favo che le bottinatrici raccolgono dai fiori. Un modo corretto di economizzare lo spazio !
bees will be bees...this one is posted full original size so you can get up close and very personal...
Mining Bee with golden haired pollen baskets, but no pollen so far. The pov makes this one look a bit bumbly, but I didn't get another shot. Super to see these and sorry to say I am so looking forward to their parasitic Nomadas!
A bee collects pollen in the warm afternoon sun. I don't usually crop my photos, but I wanted to focus on the bee for this one. Taken in Jackson Park, Chicago.
Sharpened up an old photo. I need to get out and shoot some new macros. I just discovered my camera has that feature where it will fire when something moves into the focal plane. Gonna try that with bees when the sun comes back out. First day of rain here since late May.
This is one of our favourites parts of the garden full of various types and sizes of rudbeckias, cone flowers, heliopsis, monardas, achillea and other sunloving insect, butterfly and bird attracting flowers. We also get various sunflowers popping up here and there from all those dropped sunflower seeds the birds miss !! In winter we leave all these seedheads to feed our feathered residents, and in summer the mass of flowers keep it full of fat bees like the one above :0)
The weekend has arrived. Mining bee mining pollen. Have a wonderful weekend - calling for rain here - can't complain - we had the biggest run of beach weather ever - and the rain is welcome (after a week I might just change my tune).
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