Bee honey Wall Art
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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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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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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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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!
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Sharpies + Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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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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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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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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Hit the lights!!!
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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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Bees are mysteriously disappearing all over the U.S. This worries me. What will we eat? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070223-bees.html ~~ Photograph taken by reversing the lens and holding it up to the camera body. Focusing is achieved by moving closer or further away from the subject. Tricky business when the subject’s a bee!
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Title: Field of Honey / Capture Date: 06/11/2007 / Dimensions: 3872×2592 / Exposure: 1/2000 at f/5.0 / Focal Length: 65mm / ISO: 400 / Filter: No / Flash: No / Uploaded Date: 06/11/2007 / Comments: Every honey bees dream come true! / ________________________________________________________ Please take a look at some of my other great photographs! /
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5”x7” / acrylic on wood / 2008
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East Greenbush, N.Y. / August 2008 /
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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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“Nature is neither kind nor cruel. Nature just is.” (Sir David Attenborough) 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 shot was made while on a solo wildflower safari at Grant’s Head, Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia. 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. If you look closely you can just see three of the spider’s eyes. 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: Manual settings of f/3.6 @ 1/400sec, Manual Focus, pop-up flash at lowest power, hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3 for very minimal tweaking. Find out more about Flower Spiders , Honey Bees and Bonny Hills & Rainbow Beach if you wish. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more multi-legged critters. 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!) Araneus bradleyi / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Diaea evanida / Tetragnatha sp /
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/ Pentax K200D, 1/45 sec, f/11, 100 ISO, 35mm Pentax macro lens
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