A new bee…every day
Didn’t have as many salvias around this year in the garden and I’m not sure why. I love them and so do the bees. And they, like the sunflowers (and many others), are products of the bees pollination. Fun to see the colors and even sizes vary from year to year. And they, like many of the others, wander around the garden as they seed and grow and seed and grow.
Great look at her in flight. Love it when I get those sharp shots.
Nor is my mother (with no apologies to Faulkner – that book was brutal).
That said, enjoy another pretty one in the salvia!
Fun pic. Check out the little spot of pollen on her eye…and there’s a good look at her neck. So strange looking – not what I’d imagine. Fun colors, too.
It’s just a few minutes before midnight and it’s been a long, long day. So here’s a quick one for now – shot in mid-July. It’s a native leafcutter on the salvia. Plenty cute with a great look at her eye.
Saw some bees out today about noon. Got distracted trying to catch up on things and didn’t get out for a couple of hours. Was warmer, by a degree or two, but cloudy. And they’d all gone in or elsewhere. So today you get another great salvia shot from last week. Maybe some new stuff tomorrow. Not many more days of “new stuff” left this season, sadly. Hoping for a few more. I’ve not shot enough this summer… Fantastic profile on this one. Pretty girl.
Can’t seem to get away from the salvias. Other stuff is still in bloom, but the best shots are coming from this one. So cold and windy and rainy lately. Guess we need the moisture. Not my favorite time of year. Seems so much is left undone. And so much to do yet before the snow.
I don’t do many vertical shots, but this is what the picture wanted. Two things to notice on this one: First, the pollen on the back is from another flower – those big grains. I’m not sure which one, but it’s surely not the salvia. That tickles me some. Second, she’s an older bee. The workers live about six weeks after they take the job of gathering pollen/nectar (they work in the hive for a bit before that). A couple of ways that you can tell that they’re older are that the hair gets rubbed off the thorax…and the wings start to wear out. This little one is showing signs of both. But she’s still super cute. I like the shot. Shot today, btw.
Wonderful tongue…and a bit of a wing blur. I probably should have done a broader crop to show more of the flower and gardens. But the bee is so cute…and neat.
Haven’t shot bees for a good while. Almost a week. Missed yesterday because…stuff. Was thrilled to get ten or so minutes today. So enjoy this one. Hoping for more tomorrow.
Another good look at a tongue…and face and eye and just about everything. And the salvia goes and goes and goes and goes. Really pleased with the detail and shapes in this shot.
But I still keep shooting it. The purple on the stalks is neat. And it’s just archetypal. Says summer in the gardens. And…if you’re gonna get a new bee every day, you’re gonna get bees on what is in bloom. And the salvia always seems to be.
