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My camera was trained on honey bees in the waxleaf ligustrum when this little bumble bee-bopped into view. I like the orange of her abdomen against the orange of the flowers. Actually, I didn’t even know the flowers had orange in them until I began shooting. Kinda cool. —Rusty Bumble bee on [...] After I wrote about favorite watering holes for bees, several readers wrote to say their bees liked wet potting soil. One reader sent the following photo of four bees in a small plastic pot. Yesterday I was able to capture three bees drinking from some wet woodchips that I had dumped on a woodland [...] Yesterday I saw these two little guys on the fall-flowering clematis just as the sun was setting. They look like a type of fly, but that’s all I know. Their wings glinted gold in the slanting sun, and they went from flower to flower, apparently happy to have found something in bloom. A [...] Blogger, photographer, and antspert Alex Wild says it is permissible to post photos of my cat on my bee blog only if I dress him up like a stinging insect. My cat is way too dignified to be dressed as anything but himself, but he performs royally as the queen’s bodyguard. The role fits [...] I was checking on my top-bar hive last weekend when I spotted this creature sitting on the roof, right in the midst of much honey bee activity. As far as I can tell, this is a type of bee fly–a fly that mimics the appearance of a bee. It stayed there long enough for [...] Recently, this young worker took advantage of the noonday sun to warm herself on the branches of an Alaska cedar. She sipped the dew for three or four minutes before returning to the safety of the hive, which is just below her. The thick hair covering her back is the sign of [...] I just found this fantastic photograph of a queen cup and I wanted to share it with you. These cups are built by the bees on the surface of the comb. The bees select a regular cell as a base and then enlarge it. If the queen lays an egg in one of these [...] I received a complaint that, lately, my posts have lacked pictures. Well, dah! It’s December! It is very hard to photograph bees or beekeeping when everything is on hold and waiting for spring. Nevertheless, yesterday between rain storms I took my camera up to the bee yard to photograph whatever [...] While I was photographing apiary creatures, this one stopped by and landed on a peach tree. I know it’s in the order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) but that sums up my knowledge. Still, it’s pretty and deserves to have its fifteen minutes of fame.
Creature in a peach tree. Photo [...] One morning this spring I went outside ready to take photos of mason bees coming and going from the bee condo. What I found there wasn’t a bee but my cat, perched about eight feet high on the roof of the bee condo. Although my camera was basically prepared for some macro photography, I [...] |
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