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Bumblebees fly from sunrise to sunset. Their entire life cycle depends on pollen and nectar from flowers for food. Flower pollen is rich in protein, and nectar is rich in sugars. Nectar therefore provides bees and bumblebees with the energy they need to fly. Pollen and nectar also serve as food for their larvae.
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I love bumblebees, they hang around and make these low sounds and you just feel it's good for you to have them around you
I was surprised to see and hear this bumblebee buzzing from flower to flower in a patch of crocuses that had opened up in the sunshine (at the beginning of February).
It certainly was busy collected nectar, as you can see it is smothered.
Something a little symbolic of Labor Day. :-)
Having taken no photos at all in August, I finally got out yesterday with my macro lens, pushed by a fairy ring of mushrooms growing in my yard (lots of those to come). It is the busy season with me now--school starting amid the Covid outbreak (yeah, I am nervous). I apologize for posting and running as often as I do . . . life gets quite busy on my end sometimes. Thank You to All who continue to stop by. I appreciate it!
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A side shoot from my visit to Fairbanks for the cranes in August of this year was shooting macro at the gardens which are part of the university. Here a bumblebee visits some clover.
Taken 21 August 2020 at Georgeson Botanical Gardens, Fairbanks, Alaska.
I have a rather juvenile fascination with photographing flying wonders that are more than us humans, who are more of nature's strange works. Here is the moment when the bumblebee (a wonder in itself) just catches the pistils of the borage, only to land a microsecond later and begin devouring what the borages are now offering their guests.