Bee honey
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Thanks for dropping by. / Garden Beast VII
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Collab with Ms.Chen Now this one seriously took me a very long time to make. Finally! and Salty was after my life to complete it. PRINT AVAILABLE!!!
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today was a great day for butterflies being out in cades cove, finally had some flowers blooming. caught this bee hanging out with two black swallowtails and what looks like a great spangled frilitary
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Sweet Bee…a cutey for children and the young at heart;) / Available as a print, poster and card the Sweet Bee t-shirt here Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. /
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This honey bee on my Ceanothus in my back garden was so weighed down by pollen – and yet there always seems to be room for a bit more!
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Well I think so – don’t really know one bee from another apart from some are fluffier- and the Michaelmas Daisies were a buzz with bees of all varieties- so just took the two! Featured in the group Plight Of The Bumble Bee. March 2009 / Placed in the Top Ten – Bee and Wasp Passion Challenge – May 2009
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Featured in Color and Light, Nikon DSLR, Animal Photography, and Extreme Closeups. I find macro photography very exciting, especially trying to capture action. I shot hundreds to come up with this one image, that is surely one of my best ever macro shots. I captured this image hand held, with manual focusing, and manual settings for shutter and aperture. I tried using autofocus, but it simply was not fast enough, when the lens was only 15 centimetres from the subject. I found I was able to anticipate the action of the bees, and got many “almost in focus” shots, but none as sharp as this one. I love how this bee is laden with honey, and covered in pollen dust. He was moving towards his next treasure, when I captured this. At first, I set the shutter at 1/1000s, but the images didn’t look realistic with the wings almost stopped. At 1/800 the wings are realistically blurred. I captured this with my D300 and Sigma 150 mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO 400, f8, 1/800s on Vancouver Island, Canada.
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The background is the rest of the orange cosmos garden! Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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Sweet Bee t-shirt…one for the young at heart available in a range of colours. Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
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A healthy colony may contain 50 to 80 thousand individuals, including 2 or 3 thousand male bees (drones). / lifespan of a Domestic Honey Bee is about 35 days. Colony Collapse Disorder in domestic honey bees is all the buzz lately, mostly because honey bees pollinate food crops for humans. We would not be so dependent on commercial non-native factory farmed honey bees if we were not killing off native pollinators. Organic agriculture does not use chemicals or crops toxic to bees and, done properly, preserves wildlife habitat in the vicinity, recognizing the intimate relationship between cultivated fields and natural areas. While no one is certain why honey bee colonies are collapsing, factory farmed honey bees are more susceptible to stress from environmental sources than organic or feral honey bees. Most people think beekeeping is all natural but in commercial operations the bees are treated much like livestock on factory farms. It doesn’t appear that those in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, are reporting colony collapse. The problem with commercial operations is pesticides are being used in hives to fumigate for varroa mites and antibiotics are fed to the bees to prevent disease. Hives are hauled long distances by truck, often several times during the growing season, to provide pollination services to industrial agriculture crops, which further stresses the colonies and exposes them to agricultural pesticides and GMOs. Bees have been bred for the past 100 years to be much larger than they would be if left to their own devices. If you find a feral honeybee colony in a tree, for example, the cells bees use for egg-laying will be about 4.9 mm wide. This is the size they want to build  the natural size. The foundation wax that beekeepers buy have cells that are 5.4 mm wide so eggs laid in these cells produce much bigger bees. It’s the same factory farm mentality we’ve used to produce other livestock  bigger is better. But the bigger bees do not fare as well as natural-size bees. Varroa mites, a relatively new problem in North America, will multiply and gradually weaken a colony of large bees so that it dies within a few years. Mites enter a cell containing larvae just before the cell is capped over with wax. While the cell is capped, the bee transforms into an adult and varroa mites breed and multiply while feeding on the larvae. The larvae of natural bees spend less time in this capped over stage, resulting in a significant decrease in the number of varroa mites produced. In fact, very low levels of mites are tolerated by the bees and do not affect the health of the colony. Natural-size bees, unlike large bees, detect the presence of varroa mites in capped over cells and can be observed chewing off the wax cap and killing the mites. Colonies of natural-size bees are healthier in the absence mites, which are vectors for many diseases. It’s now possible to buy small cell foundation from US suppliers, but most beekeepers in Canada have either never heard of small cell beekeeping, aren’t willing to put the effort into changing or are skeptical of the benefits. This alternative is not promoted at all by the Canadian Honey Council, an organization representing the beekeeping industry, which even tells its members on their website that, “The limitations to disease control mean that losses can be high for organic beekeepers.” [ref link] Organic beekeeping, as defined by certification agencies, allows the use of less toxic chemicals. It’s more an IPM approach to beekeeping than organic. Commercial beekeeping today is just another cog in the wheel of industrial agriculture  necessary because pesticides and habitat loss are killing native pollinators, and vast tracks of monoculture crops aren’t integrated into the natural landscape. In an organic Canada, native pollinators would flourish and small diversified farms would keep their own natural bees for pollination and local honey sales. The factory farm aspects of beekeeping, combined with an onslaught of negative environmental factors, puts enough stress on the colonies that they are more susceptible to dying out.
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Featured in Bee and Wasp Passion. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Captured with a Nikon D300 camera, Sigma 150 mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO 400, f8, 1/800s.
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What would I do without this garden? Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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5”x7” / acrylic on wood / 2008
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Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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it was nice to capture this honeybee hard at work
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Another macro shot from the Sigma 150 f2.8 marco. Dropped the levels seriously after playing with selective colour. Cropped it in a little tighter for effect together with unsharp mask! Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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“Nature is neither kind nor cruel. Nature just is.” (Sir David Attenborough) THE SUBJECT: / The title is apt as I photographed this little Diaea evanida (Flower Spider) as she was preparing her catch, an Apis mellifera (European Honey Bee), for dinner around 5pm on a mid-spring day. / The flower is a Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower), an iconic Aussie wildflower. THE LOCATION: / The shot was made while on a solo wildflower safari at Grant’s Head, Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia. THE MAKING of ‘Dinner at Five 2/2’: / I was all twisted up like a pretzel as I tried to get a good angle of shot under the flower, set the metering, get the focus and frame the shot while my subject was trying to get away from me and my Fuji. There was a price to pay. I got a tick under my watchband. I didn’t notice it until after I got home and it was a minor operation to dig it out intact. / The trick with the exposure was to meter off the very bright Flannel Flower and lock it then focus on the subject and use the flash to compensate and fill shadows. / Fuji S9600: RAW, Manual settings of f/3.6 @ 1/400sec, Manual focus, Pop-up flash at lowest power, Hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more multi-legged critters. UPDATE: / 13-01-09 / The judge for the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club December 2008 Open Competition awarded my spider ‘n’ bee a Merit Certificate in the Large Colour Print section. UPDATE: / 19-03-09 / My bee munchin’ Arachnid has been featured in the Arachnids Group. Enjoy! HYMENOPTERA & SPIDERS HYMENOPTERA / (Click the links!) Apis mellifera & Thomisus spectabilis / Apis mellifera & Thomisus spectabilis / Apis mellifera / Apis mellifera & Protea / Apis mellifera & Lagunaria bracteata / Trigona carbonaria & Onopordum acanthium / Trigona carbonaria, Apis mellifera & Nymphaea violacea / / Polistes humilis / SPIDERS / (Click the links!) Argiope keyserlingi / Deinopis subrufa / Araneus bradleyi / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Diaea evanida / Diaea evanida / Tetragnatha sp /
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Hit the lights!!!
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Macro Bee on a Lavender flower. I love the way you can see his feeding on the flower. #12 great features
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POTD Digital Image Cafe August 31, 2008.
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also available as a card and poster
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was shooting macros of this wildflower in cades cove, when i got the treat of three varities of bees sharing the wildflower (think is part of the cone family, its really cool!), unfortunately this year, 2007, was a very very rough year for ALL the wildlife and nature in the smoky mountains, due to no rain, and a freak freeze around easter. the freeze killed everything that had already bloomed, so it was very odd to see species that normally dont hang out together, tolerating each other just to eat. shot this macro using a nikon diopter lens attached to a canon 75-300mm lens
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