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A newly-emerged female Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea) in our Staffordshire garden.
There's been lots of solitary bee activity recently, but a significant fall of snow last night will have slowed them down a bit!
Some Slaves forced to mine for gold in the harsh heats of distant (country name here) Slavery can be harsh... And in this heat, rebellion is often frowned upon :P
(141/365) A female Andrena haemorrhoa "Early Mining bee" about to enter her nest burrow in my garden. We have lots of these solitary bees as well as Red Mason bees, Ashy (Grey) Mining bees & Chocolate Mining bees all with associated Nomad "Cuckoo" bees that lay their eggs in the hosts nests HBBBT!
Andrena nigroaenea ♀ (?)
Buffish Mining Bee
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Bridgewater Canal, Worsley
The light and reflection from the illuminated orange canal water was just too good to take only a couple of shots so a change of position to concentrate on the under lit arch and its reflection. It's just missing a cyclist or dog walker on the tow path... might be a couple more to come!
I'm pretty sure the bee is a mining bee, literally getting into its pollinating work. The wild geranium is a favorite flower of the mining bee, one of the early spring pollinators. Photo taken in Upper Hixon Forest, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Window reflections from Park City, Utah. Hundred yr. old glass in these windows.
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And more from the garden during the lockdown period. We are lucky to have a small garden which we enjoy tremendously at the moment. While looking for more motifs for new photos I noticed a few bees flying low over the grass and they turned out to be mining bees looking for a spot to dig a hole in the ground. Those solitary bees will then lay one single egg and add pollen for the larvae. Not easy to photograph as they were obviously not standing still for my camera ;-)
Quite happy to see that my standard walk-around tamron lens is good enough to image the little single eyes the bees have in the middle of their head!
Bergbauwagen aus der Ingurtosu-Mine, Sardinien.
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Mining wagon from the Ingurtosu mine, Sardinia
We went out on a no moon weekend on a photography trip through the Mojave desert around Tonopah Nevada. We photographed the cars, busses and a Joshua Tree, at night, at the International Car forest of the Last Church, in the ghost town of Gold Field, and the next day we photographed the mining town of Gold Point. We even captured some wild donkeys, horses, a Snowy Egret, and a Red Tailed Hawk.
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150253 passes the site of the former Lewis Merthyr colliery in the Rhondda Valley with a Treherbert bound Transport for Wales service back in 2019. Another shot that can no loinger be replicated today. 2T14 10:06 Cardiff Central to Treherbert.
The mine Ramsbeck is an ore mining museum and a visitor's mine in Sauerland (Ramsbeck, municipality of Bestwig).
In the visitor's mine one can find out about the dismantling of lead and zinc in the original tunnel.
With the original pit road the visitors 1.5 km are driven in the mountain.
Then 300 m in underground tell experienced miners in old tunnel about her former work.
What left of the family still lives in the farm house but the barn rots because the fields are now replaced with housing and a new highway.Eventually the family will be gone and it will all be razed for new housing. This is the way of things. Urban sprawl.
An old mining cabin I found while exploring. I used Topaz Texture Effects 2 for the artistic effects. #abandoned #rurex
The German Mining Museum, founded in Bochum in 1930, is the largest mining museum in the world and, on the other hand, is a research institute for georesources and mining and mining archives. The museum has a demonstration mine with a rope simulator. The symbol of the museum, which can be seen from afar, the 71 m high winding tower can be climbed.
This is an impressive load for this Western Star highway tractor and trailer. The Western Star is set up with a Tridem axle system meaning is has three driving axles.
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Memorial for the Cherry Mine Disaster in tiny Cherry,IL. The 1909 disaster stands as the 3rd worst mining accident in US history-259 men and boys lost their lives that day.Many of them are buried in the cemetery of this tiny central Illinois town in the shadow of the large tailings mound from the long defunct coal mine.The mound still turns red in the fall when the foliage dies away as if bleeding for the souls lost there...
History of the disaster here...
Wheal Owles, Cornwall.
Work began on extracting tin and minerals at Wheal Owles in the 1850s. At its height it had 29 miles of levels and 11 steam engines at the site, a mile from St Just.
In an event which could have stepped straight from the pages of a novel, tragedy struck in January 1893 when flood water broke through the underground workings trapping one boy and 19 men. Their bodies were never recovered and the mine remained closed from that day. There is a plaque recalling their names on the wall of the engine house.
(extract from 'We Are Cornwall' website)
Prosperous Lead Mine and Smelt Mill lies on the southern side of Ashfold Gill to the north-west of Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire.
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