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Plight of the Bumble Bee

Dedicated to the hard working and often undervalued bee.

Featured Work

In Beetween by Trudi's Images { On Hols ! }

Poked the camera through the stamens of a grevillea and found this little guy exploring for pollen ! / / Olympus 570uz super mac mode
Bidens mitis - Marsh Beggartick by rd Erickson

Bidens Mitis is found growing in the rich soil around ponds and lakes. Alligator Lake, where this image was taken, in north Florida, Columbia County, at the edge of Lake City, has dried almost completely in the north end of the lake. Only a very small trickle of a stream still meanders from a few large ponds to the sink hole that swallowed all the rest of the water. Earlier in the year, the lake is filled with Yellow Lotus, in the fall, the Marsh Beggartick takes to the stage with a brighter yellow. it grows nearly 5 feet high, with most of the plants averaging three to 4 feet. each golden yellow blossom has eight petals, unless having lost one. the book says 8 to eleven petals, all i saw had eight. the bumble bees were everywhere going from flower to flower, along with the monarch butterfly’s, buckeyes, gulf fritillary, and one red admiral.
One very Content Bumblebee by Bellavista2

When go you outside the border of things and do things a little bit daring, Nature sometimes has the most wonderful suprises. Like when I stuck my head inside a Prikley Pear Blossum, this one very content Bumblebee had it all to himselve. I love Macro you get to see more of what you normally would not normally see with the naked eye. If you look closely you can see all the Bumblebees apendages and the pollen on him. He was so content he was blissfully unaware I was there with my camera, but I was not going to push my luck, took my photo and left him too his business. Photo taken bu Canon IXUS
Beauty of the Bee by Marija

A bumble bee on the Goldenrod flower in my yard. / Featured 8/30/09 in Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects. Thank you hosts. Featured in Plight of the Bumble Bee 10/29/09. Thank you hosts.
Honey Maker by jacqi

Warm and sunny today and the bees are out in force amongst the flowers / Canon SX10 1S /
Bumble Bee by Kane Slater

West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 5/22/09
The Pollinator!! by naturelover

It really looks as though that is a stream of Pollen this Bumble is sucking up-can’t believe my little compact has picked up so much detail- so not really sure what it is exactly! Anyway always good to see the bees around-enjoy! Featured in the group ‘The Plight of The Bumble Bee’ -October 2009 Taken with a Fuji A600 Finepix Compact Camera and finished in the free download Photo-dynamic HDR and Picasa 3
High on Pollen by GeorgieH

Wattle seems to be a particular favourite of the local bees… Lumix TZ11. Featured in Super Macro Photography and Plight of the Bumble Bee. Top ten (third) in Wattle Be the Challenge, Fabulous Flowers group.
Can you say bee guard? by Kimberly Peers

Ok, well seems that I am victim of my own ignorance. I walked outside to watch my feeders and low and behold I found more than I bargained for. The africanized honey bees found the feeders and I managed to get a few shots off before more arrived. I did purchase bee guard but they don’t fit this feeder. So I took the feeders down for a few days in hopes that I can put them out once they have moved on.
...and dinner by David Holmes

Taken 2 mins from my house in Preston, Lancashire Nikon D60 / 1967 Nikkor Micro 55mm
Sunny Bee Day by MissyD

From my back yard / Nikon D40x / 18-55mm Nikkon / Featured In: Plight of the Bumble Bee /
One in , one out! by Carole Stevens

My budleia globosa was full of bees this year, but I wanted a more artistic view of the bumble bees (Bombus terrestris), rather than a simple natural history shot, which I have hundreds of. / So Ive cropped this into a square as I felt the angles of the 2 bees, with the one flying off would work.

Recent Work

Bee-U-tiful Living by tigerwings

A Bee works merrily from flower to flower inside Lamberton Consevatory-Rochester, NY. Nov 09’ Olympus E-520 50mm Zuiko f2.0 Macro
Bee on a Toadstool II by Robert Kendall

This was taken in the in-laws back garden, i had noticed some toadstools/fungi growing on their lawn. / Armed with the A900 and 100 macro, i went outside to take some images and was surprised to find a Bee sat on one of the toadstools. A900 / Sony 100 macro / ISO 200 / f/5.6 / 1/20 sec exp
Bee on a Toadstool by Robert Kendall

This was taken in the in-laws back garden, i had noticed some toadstools/fungi growing on their lawn. / Armed with the A900 and 100 macro, i went outside to take some images and was surprised to find a Bee sat on one of the toadstools. A900 / Sony 100 macro / ISO 200 / f/5.6 / 1/20 sec exp
Hooded Bee by muzwilson

I could get in nice and close on this fellow while his head was in the flower. / Shot in mums backyard Camperdown Victoria / Olympus e500 / 50mm macro
Vibrant Bug by Sarah-fiona Helme

Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens.
Color Coordinated Bumble by Len Bomba

Bumblebees, we all know, are black and yellow. Well, I’ve observed many of them adorning this coordinating coloring during the fall of 2008. Enjoy! Len / /
Beauty And The Bumble Bee by Kathleen Benttinen

This was taken in my garden this summer.
Bee with pollen by Kane Slater

Etobicoke, Ontario / 9/1/09
Bees in love by Hans Bax

Loving bees on a table in a friends backyard in Koudekerk aan de Amstel, near Amsterdam, Holland. - FEATURED in Macro Untouched. 2 per day only 6 November 2009 / Supermacro. Used camera: Canon Powershot S3 IS
Last Bit Of Nectar by T. Wall ~Through My Lens ~

Taken in Osceola Mills, Pa Fall of 2008 / /
afternoon tea by Edyta Pelc

super macro

About This Group

The group exist to promote the life and to show all that is good about the humble honey/bumble bee. They play a huge part in our lives with food production and keeping our visual life stimulated with pretty flowers to see feel and pick! – they deserve special recognition for all their hard work. Honey lovers everywhere should join.

The Winner of the Fascinated by Purple Challenge
Tom Newman