Bee honey Wall Art
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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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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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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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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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Sweet
by Ken BoxsellThanks for dropping by. / Garden Beast VII
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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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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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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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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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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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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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it was nice to capture this honeybee hard at work
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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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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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Was actually taking a picture of the Zucchini Flower and didn’t notice this little chap- well I wouldn’t as it was covered from head to sting in Pollen- having the time of its little life in there!!! Taken with a Fuji A600 Finepix Camera and Used SC and cropped in free download of Picasa 3 Featured in Image Writing – July 2009 / Featured in Plight Of The Bumble Bee- July 2009 / Featured in ‘Extreme Close-Ups – August 2009 / Featured in ‘Alphabet Soup’ – July 2009 / Sale of a Mounted Print to Clive- October 2009 / Sale of a Card – October 2009 / Featured in ‘The World and How We See It’ – November 2009
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May 2009. And the bees are dead, by the way. Canon 5D Mark II
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The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee. Human management of this species is known as beekeeping or apiculture.Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee
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Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 55mm ~ 1/320’s ~ f / 9 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Auto Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / _______ TOP TEN FINISH / CHALLENGE ~ / Show Your Favorite Subject To Photograph / FOCUS and LIGHTING GROUP / 10/23/2009 / _______ TOP TEN FINISH / CHALLENGE – DISCOVER NEW WORLDS ~ MACRO / MOOD & AMBIENCE GROUP / 09/21/2009 / ________ / / 09/14/2009 / ________ / 09/06/2009 / ________ / ________ / ________
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A little Australian Native Stingless Bee (Trigona carbonaria), cleaning her long proboscis (a complex “tongue”), used to suck the nectar from flowers. These little bees are harmless to humans, which is a good thing, as to get this shot, at 5x, I had to put the lens right in her face.. Hehe! Shot in the Noosa National Park, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia. Flower is a native wildflower to the sandy areas, not sure of the name unfortunately. Canon 5D Mk II, 65mm, 5x. Available Large, and best appreciated Large!
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mixed media on old book cover / charcoal/soft pastel/watercolour pencil/sharpie/canvas/brown paper /
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Captured on 10/22/09 just before the sun set…..the only editing was to tone down the contrast…..enjoy and please view in large format…. This image is copyright protected and registered; please respect copyrights:MCN: CAHCH-57PW3-A9BWV / / /
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