Honeybee on White Rose
by Karen Adams
Title
Honeybee on White Rose
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
If you love honey, you love honeybees. If you love flowers, or fruits and vegetables, you should love honeybees!
Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive.
Many species still occur in the wild, but honeybees are disappearing from hives due to colony collapse disorder. Scientists are not sure what is causing this collapse.
Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. Members of the hive are divided into three types. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, and circulate air by beating their wings. The queen's job is simpleāshe lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually only a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.
Queens regulate the hive's activities by producing chemicals that guide the behavior of the other bees. Male bees are called dronesāthe third class of honeybee. Several hundred drones live in each hive during the spring and summer, but they are expelled for the winter months when the hive goes into a lean survival mode.
Honeybees: Apis mellifera
Invertebrates
DIET: Herbivore
AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IN THE WILD: Up to 5 years
(This information is copied from: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/insects/honeybee/ )
I think it is up to all of us to find ways to give respect to all life on earth and if there is some action we can take to let creatures live a full live, we should do it! Hopefully we can figure out ways to save the wonderful honeybees for their good and for our own!
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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October 27th, 2019
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Comments (45)
Johanna Hurmerinta
Congratulations! Your wonderful photograph is featured on The 200 Club groupās homepage for best photos with over 200 views and under 500! Featured images are changed often; to remain visible for potential buyers who visit this highly active group, please post your featured images in the discussion thread Features Archives and any other appropriate discussion threads. Thanks for your participation!
CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your July Features` discussion.
LaVonne Kennedy
Oh how enchanting ! I love all the life going on around usā¦all the dear living things that are so innocent and pure ! This really captures the blessed give and take going on in the perfect balance of life !
Karen Adams replied:
Amen, LaVonne! Nature is a wondrous thing. We are so blessed and unworthy of it all
Rachel Morrison
How sweetly pretty! Congratulations on your selection in 'Administrator's Picks of the Week' in AWT group!
Jasna Dragun
Congratulations on your āAdministratorās Picks of the Weekā, beautiful macro! l/f
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your beautiful work's selection as an Admin Pick of the Week in the A Woman's Touch group! l/f
Sharon W
Congratulations on your Administratorās Pick of the Week in A Woman's Touch group! Stunning macro dear Karen, wow amazing!!
Loredana Gallo Migliorini
Nice detailed shot Karen!!! Congratulations on your Picks of the Week chosen by the Administrator of A Woman's Touch Group!
VIVA Anderson
Highest compliments, Karen: for this superbly beautiful vision, and, your homepage Feature/Pick of the Week, at/in... A WOMAN'S TOUCH group, kudos, FAV........VIVA
Brooks Garten Hauschild
Congratulations on your homepage feature in āA Womanās Touchā, Karen! Iām also sharing this beautiful image in my āAdministratorās Picks of the Weekā thread today! You are welcome to share your featured work in any other group thread that fits. Fvl.
Karen Adams
Thank you, Nader, for featuring this on the Fine Art America Professionals group home page
Steve Rich
It is my pleasure to FEATURE your image on the homepage of "The Meandering Photographerā. Please consider adding your photo to the "Feature History, The Meandering Photographer (April-June 2023)" active discussion thread. 6-27-2023