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She was do busy she didn't care about a very close approach, and when I went to pic the flowers round it she still hung on!
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This week's trip to DLR was surprisingly ride based (I haven't done that in months!) so I didn't get many photos in, but I was definitely inspired by the vibrant zinnias in one of the flower beds between Ariel's Undersea Adventure and Paradise Pier.
We get many bees in our garden from local hives as well as their larger bumblebee cousins. This worker bee was photographed at work on a bidens flower in one of our garden containers.
Worker bees are the most familiar-looking member of the honeybee hive, as they make up about 99% of each colony's population.
Worker bees are all female, and they do almost everything for the hive. From birth to her death about 45 days later, the worker bee is given different tasks to do during different stages of her life. Worker bees are responsible for everything from feeding the larvae (the baby bees), to tending to the queen, to cleaning the hive, to collecting food, to guarding the colony, to building honeycomb.
The stinger of the worker bee is barbed, so when she is forced to defend herself or the hive, her stinger will become stuck in the skin of her victim. She is unable to pull it out, and dies when she inevitably tears herself away from the stuck stinger, leaving it behind with the venom sack still pumping venom into her victim. Consequently, honeybees are very gentle - they don't want to die any more than you want to be stung. Be nice to them, and they'll be nice to you.
Information supplied from The Honeybee Centre.
You know what's even nicer than getting bee blocks in the mail? Collecting them in person!
Danke, Ihr Lieben, fuer die schoenen Bloecke!
A photograph of our home-made solitary bee home can be viewed here: www.flickr.com/photos/typoretum/3518279320/in/set-7215761...
Spring's first Bee+Flower closeup ;) this one was pretty skinny and sluggish - easy to "shoot" though...
Camera: Canon PowerShot G6
This was taken on the first day I got the camera. And my first time taking a macro shot.
Pictured feeding on an Ox-eye daisy.
Photographed in Great Henny on the Essex/Suffolk border in England.
For the first time in a long time a real super macro from me again. Shot with the 100mm lens, TWO extension rings and my home made ringflash!
Best seen on this resolution!!!: www.flickr.com/photos/peregrin71/7215421320/sizes/h/in/ph...
Few things evoke summer like the background buzzing of these wee guys. I keep a patch of borage plants in my garden simply to attract them and during the recent brilliant weather it was constantly covered in them. It was a very bright day when I took this which meant a lot of contrasty shadows which I brightened by using an LED ring light on a 60mm macro lens. Nikon D300s, 1/1000 second at f5.6.