If you want to attract all manners of bees, bumblebbes, and wasps, then this is the plant for you! My Globe Thistle plant has about 30 flowers, and every second one seems to have one of the pollenators probing them…
Photographed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/125s., f/4.5, ISO 800.
bumblebee, bumble bee, bee, flower, thistle, globe thistle, blue, pollenator, pollenation, garden, insect
A lovely capture!!!!
Great capture with nice composition and detail.
Wonderful capture
12 August 2011 – 1 image per dayGreat close up!
Excellent macro shot. Love the colour.
Beautiful macro work,Daniel, with just superb clarity and color!
Well done Dan!
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A lovely capture!!!!
Great capture with nice composition and detail.
Wonderful capture
12 August 2011 – 1 image per day

Great close up!
Excellent macro shot. Love the colour.
Beautiful macro work,Daniel, with just superb clarity and color!
Well done Dan!