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Watching this Bumblebee search for nectar brought to mind that axiom... "Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy"
The Bumblebee:
Bumblebees are social insects that form colonies with a single queen. The colonies are smaller than those of honeybees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Cuckoo bumblebees are brood parasitic and do not make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers.
Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair called 'pile', making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have warning coloration, often consisting of contrasting bands of color.
Like their relatives the honeybees, bumblebees feed on nectar, using their long hairy tongues to lap up the liquid; the proboscis is folded under the head during flight. Bumblebees gather nectar to add to the stores in the nest, and pollen to feed their young.
They forage using color and spatial relationships to identify flowers to feed from. Some bumblebees steal nectar, making a hole near the base of a flower to access the nectar while avoiding pollen transfer. Bumblebees are important agricultural pollinators, so their decline in Europe, North America, and Asia is a cause for concern. The decline has been caused by habitat loss, the mechanization of agriculture, and pesticides.
(200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/2000 @ f/8.0, ISO 800, edited to taste)
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The Canada Goose is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands.
Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; it tends to be found on or close to fresh water.
Extremely successful at living in human-altered areas, Canada geese have proven able to establish breeding colonies in urban and cultivated areas, which provide food and few natural predators. The success of this common park species has led to its often being considered a pest species because of its depredation of crops and its noise, droppings, aggressive territorial behavior towards both humans and other animals, and its habit of begging for food (caused by human hand feeding).
The oldest known wild Canada Goose was a female, and at least 33 years, 3 months old when she was shot in Ontario in 2001. She had been banded in Ohio in 1969.
(Wikipedia)
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Crystal clear mirror images are infrequent on Donner Lake due to wind and boats. This image is from the January 2019 archives.
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Дон — река в Европейской части России. Длина реки — 1870 км
Исток Дона располагается в городе Новомосковске, находящемся в северной части Среднерусской возвышенности, на высоте около 180 м над уровнем моря. Исток Дона является одной из главных достопримечательностей города.
На Дону расположены два города-миллионника: Воронеж и Ростов-на-Дону.
Don is a river in the European part of Russia. The length of the river is 1870 km. The fifth longest river in Europe.
The source of the Don is located in the city of Novomoskovsk, located in the northern part of the Central Russian Upland, at an altitude of about 180 m above sea level. The source of the Don is one of the main attractions of the city.
There are two million-plus cities on the Don: Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don.
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Hierodula is a genus of praying mantises found throughout Asia. Many species are referred to by the common name giant Asian mantis because of their large size.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Subfamily: Mantinae
Tribe: Paramantini
Genus: Hierodula
Burmeister, 1838
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