Nine More Busy Bees
by Joyce Dickens
Title
Nine More Busy Bees
Artist
Joyce Dickens
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Photograph - Fine Art Photography
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Captured the evening of 09/16/12 macro mode with a flash as it was very nearly dark.....these busy guys don't even wait anymore for the blossoms to open all the way....some of them were finding their way inside way before the blossom even began to unfurl....
The following exerpt is compliments of Wikipedia:
Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees in the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, there are only seven recognised species of honey bee with a total of 44 subspecies,[1] though historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognised. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.
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September 17th, 2012
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Randy Rosenberger
Your artwork recently submitted to our group WFS, has been chosen to be featured on our homepage with other members of our family of friends and fine artists. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
Dominique Fortier
This is just amazing, Joyce. I really love it. It is so well balanced and shot. l/f
Lingfai Leung
It looks like these busy bees are visiting the "Angel Trumpet" or may be I am wrong. Yes, this is phenomenal!
Danielle Parent
very nice . that must be a very fragrant flower look at them bees! Great macro voted
Joyce Dickens replied:
Danielle, actually I have never gotten much of a scent from them....I think the bees know about the abnormal amount of pollen in them - they are actually trying to get inside the blooms before they even open.....its like a feeding frenzy! ;-)
Kay Novy
I never seen so many honey bees on one flower! Great capture. V/F.
Joyce Dickens replied:
Kay thank you so much...this is more than I normally see in one blossom though I do have many images with six or seven....jd
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