Bee U T on a Coneflower
by Karen Adams
Title
Bee U T on a Coneflower
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
Common Eastern Bumblebees are important pollinators of many plant species. This busy bee is enjoying a lovely purple coneflower (echinacea.) They are certainly interesting and extremely important creatures to our lives. Did you know only female bumble bees have stingers? We know that bumble bees eat pollen and nectar, but I was shocked to also read that they also eat bee poop! Maybe TMI!
Bumble bee colonies die at the end of each growing season. The only survivor being the queen, who then starts a new colony in the spring. This is different from honey bee colonies, where the queen and some members of the colony survive throughout the winter.
Happily, honey bees make lots of honey, enough for bee keepers to collect for us to eat, but Bumble bees only make a small amount of honey, which they eat themselves.
Bees are threatened by habitat loss, but you can help! Take action to protect bees by planting a pollinator garden.
Thank you so much for looking at my images. I appreciate that very much.
I am very concerned with our environment and have decided to donate any money I make from any sales of this image to the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND.....because the Earth needs a good lawyer! We all need to speak up and support efforts to protect our environment. We will not get a second chance!
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A big thank you to the administrators of the following groups for featuring Bee U T on a Coneflower on their group home page:
Macro Marvels
BUGs, BUGs, and more BUGs
Macro Photography
Images That Excite You
Global Flowers
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July 24th, 2018
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Comments (9)
Morris Finkelstein
Fabulous close up photograph of a bee on a coneflower with great colors, perspective, clarity, and composition, Karen! F/L
Karen Adams
Thank you so much, Jasna, for featuring this image on the Global Flowers group home page!
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"