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Is it possible to tame a wasp? And is it possible to do it in about 20 minutes? If so, I've done it. Before the downpour today I noticed a wasp was loitering around in my garden for about an hour. I decided to put a drop of sugar water on a plant he was near and see what happened. He ended up staying on this plant long enough for my to set up all my macro gear and a silver reflector. I then proceeded to do a portrait style photo shoot of the wasp for the next hour or so. I'm probably very weird, but the whole thing was fascinating to me
This little fella was covered in Pollen...As was I nearly with my face in the bush of flowers, using a close up snap on macro lens! Dangerous game!
“For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
~ William Shakespeare
Taken for The "I Have to Shoot What?!" 52-Week Challenge - Week 26: "Morning"
Finglas Garden 16-04-2020
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Apidae
Genus:Bombus
Subgenus:Pyrobombus
Species:B. hypnorum
Binomial name
Bombus hypnorum
The tree bumblebee or new garden bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) is a species of bumblebee common in the European continent and parts of Asia. Since the start of the twenty-first century, it has spread to the United Kingdom and Iceland. These bumblebees prefer habitats that others do not, allowing them to pollinate flowers in areas that many other species do not get to.
Bombus hypnorum has a short proboscis and a rounded head. The thorax is usually of a uniformly ginger color (but examples with a darker, or even black thorax occur), the abdomen is covered in black hair, and the tail is always white. In workers, the first tergite (abdominal segment) is black-haired, but a proportion of males may have ginger hairs intermixed with the black hair, both on the face and on the first abdominal tergum. On the European continent, individuals with extended yellow coloration exist. Workers are often (but not always) small, while drones are much bigger in comparison. The queens vary in size
St. Louis
Message: "So work the honey-bees Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom"
A little wet bee that I brought inside to dry off, he began walking and then once his wings were dry and the rain stopped out he went
“For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
-Shakespeare-
Finglas Garden 15-04-2020
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Apidae
Genus:Bombus
Subgenus:Bombus
Species:B. lucorum
Binomial name
Bombus lucorum
Bombus lucorum, the white-tailed bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee, widespread and common throughout Europe.
White-tailed bumblebee Queens are large and striking creatures that have the characteristic black and yellow pattern, which we have come accustomed to associating with bumblebees. For a short recap on where I start with bumblebee identification, I look at the tail colour first, then the number and colour of bands present (or in some cases the lack of bands). Fortunately the name of this species is an important identification feature, the white-tailed bumblebee has, well a white tail. For B. lucorum queens the tail colour is a very clean, striking white, unlike that of the buff-tailed bumblebee, which can have anything from an off-white to an almost orange coloured tail.
Not my usual, but I was fascinated by his shadow...his mid-section almost looks translucent. Not one of my favorite creatures, for sure.
June 15 2009
Passing by this bush, it was loaded with bees just stealing all the pollen. Caught a couple that I liked.
This little creature was not even suppose to get shot I think it appeared when I tried making a photo of the flower! So I was really surprised when I saw it on my screen :D
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home,
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.
- William Shakespeare