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Native Masked Bee (Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus)) male
Despite them being late appearing this season I have already seen more of the Masked Bees than all of last season.
This one was enjoying a Dandelion.
Bee ~ My Garden ~ Catford ~ South London ~ Sunday April 3rd 2016.
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The bees are back doing their thang in my garden...doing a great job of pollinating my blueberry bushes..Big up the busy bees..:)
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I went looking for wild orchids again today, and spotted one that I didn't dare to look for... bee orchids are always such a treat to find. Although their blossoms look quite noticeable being so small they're easy to miss.
During my recent encounter with these Bee Eater I was fortunately to have many keepers of the fight shots. I shoot these at s1/4000, f4 to 5.6, CAF with Subject detection in Sequential Mode of 25 fps or SH2. Taking off or landing shoots were shot with ProCapture SH2.
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I've just returned from another trip to Serbia, leading a Bird Photography Tour for 3 clients. One of the highlights was the fabulous Bee-eater colony. Here the light was very soft which I found much more appealing for capturing the birds' plumage.
Website rangers WWF The bees help flowers and plants in love. It works like this: a male flower has stamens. There's pollen on it. That looks like yellow powder. A bee dives into the flower in search of nectar. The pollen sticks to its fur. The bee then flies to a female flower for even more nectar. It leaves the pollen on its pistil. You call that pollination. This is how a flower is fertilized and new seeds grow. Without bees and other insects, the love between flowers and plants would go terribly wrong and strawberries, tomatoes, watermelons or apples would no longer grow.
Bee. Photographed in Maryland.
A single image, shot hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set to 1/16th power.
I think I may have wrongly named this plant the other day in a posting, Can anyone confirm for me is this a 'Mahonia'
Wikipedia: The green bee-eater (Merops orientalis), also known as little green bee-eater, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water. Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named.
From the morning I chased the Monarch flitting through my yard, with particular interest on the Milkweed, of course. They're blooming now, in the dead of winter. Beats me. I'm not sure about the little brown specs - today I realized there are actually seed pods opening, full of silk and seed, and I did note the bees occasionally looking like they were stuck. I thought a spider web, but couldn't see any. Now I'm completely guessing it's the silk from the seed pod and maybe some seeds there on its legs. I could be totally wrong. Check it large...
Did I mention I'm SO glad I added a macro to my camera bag last Spring when that pandemic thing hit and all my nature hangouts closed. Little did I know I'd still be laying low, ten months later. Stay safe out there.
Merops Ornatus
male
Bee-eater with a Emerald Dragonfly
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I've finally had the occasion to go hunt the beautifully colored Bee eaters and I gotta say that I was surprised by how easy it was...
This Bee was busy
I have taken very few shots of Bees, but I do like and appreciate them. I was standing in a field by a pond waiting for birds to come in. The field was full of Yellow Hawkweed which attracted Goldfinches and many types of polinators.
When I posted this last evening, I did not know the species. Thanks to those who provided the ID,