#honey bee photographs

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Most Honeybees Really Love Colorful Flowering Trees

Arrival Central Florida provides a good environment for growing quite a few types of flowering trees and our rural area offers plenty of land for plant nurseries. It’s not surprising, then, that there are quite a few nurseries near where I live. One of them has a wonderful selection of flowering trees, and I couldn’t help but stop by there one day when I was out running errands. I didn’t buy…

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[mellygregs]

Summer Sweetness.

August 2024.

IPhoneSE

[gardenofafterthoughts]

14/07/20

“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.”

- Corina Abdulahm-Negura

[flowerishness]

Rudbeckia fulgida (Black-eyed Susan. orange coneflower)

Many flowers are beginning to wind down in late summer but not so the Rudbeckia. This dense mass planting is just too good to be true and today the honey bees were lined up around the block. The days are getting noticeably shorter and there's not much time left to fill up the hive with provisions. Too soon the air will grow cold and all these lovely flowers will be gone.

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The cactus next door, and so many bees. Cochise County, Arizona, June 2024.

[orofeaiel]

Spotted at the Frog Creek Meadow Campground - Gnome Home Carving, Violet-Green Swallows (!), Oxeye Daisies, Western Honey Bee, Milbert's Tortoiseshell, Columbian Black-Tailed Deer

[julesofnature]

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexation or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. 

~Rachel Carson

[apollolabsworld]

this has been my holdback photo for a couple of weeks. the lighting was perfect, this was a photo i was so happy to capture!

[samirafee]

#BEE on a MISSION in LIFE…🐝♻️💟

@samirafee

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Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk

Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk shows a honey bee flying into a bunch of tamarisk flowers. Honey bees were among a plethora of insects enjoying and pollinating the flowers.

In Coming Recently, when I went out for a hike, I found this wonderful patch of tamarisk flowers not far from my house. It was loaded with pollinators of all sizes and shapes. I could probably have spent the entire day right there just shooting pics of wasps, bees, and all manner of other insects. Among the insects that the flowers had attracted were quite a few honey bees (Apis mellifera). They…

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[thomas--bombadil]

Bee bottom.

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S – Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S.F.Blake – Lacrime d'Italia (Caprifoliaceae)

[flowerishness]

Gaillardia (blanket flower) and Apis mellifera (Western honeybee)

Winter bees

As summer slides into autumn, these honey bees know what's coming next. The days are getting shorter and the nights are definitely colder. These are the last blanket flowers of the year and are rapidly producing their seedpods. Meanwhile, honeybees are in a frenzy of activity and on a sunny afternoon they're out in full force. Metaphorically speaking, these worker bees are filling up the shelves with jars of honey so that the queen can survive the winter.

Soon the 'winter bees' will emerge, a special caste of honey bees responsible for keeping the queen warm and well fed. Worker bees typically live about six weeks but winter bees are larger and fatter (and live much longer). They stay wide awake through those cold months, clustered into a small ball, eating the stored honey and shivering their flight muscles to generate heat. The queen will resume egg laying in late winter and that next generation will be the honey bees you'll see flying around next spring.