Bee Gone Says the Tiny Spider

Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy… ... more

by Donna Kennedy

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Bee Gone Says the Tiny Spider

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Donna Kennedy

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Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy…
A Tiny White Crab Spider sits on the edge of this daisy petal hoping the big bee leaves soon...:) Photographed in Reno Nevada

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Honeybee hives have long provided humans with honey and beeswax. Such commercial uses have spawned a large beekeeping industry, though many species still occur in the wild.
All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. A hive's inhabitants are generally divided into three types. Workers are the only bees that most people ever see. These bees are females that are not sexually developed. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, circulate air by beating their wings, and perform many other societal functions. The queen's job is simple, laying 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 diet of a food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen. Queens also regulate the hive's activities by producing chemicals that guide the behavior of the other bees.
Male bees are called drones-the 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.
Bees live on stored honey and pollen all winter, and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. Larvae are fed from the stores during this season and, by spring, the hive is swarming with a new generation of bees.
The common daisy (Bellis perennis) must be one of the most well known flowers on earth. Daisies belong to the daisy family of Compositae, now known as Asteraceae in flowering plants. Daisies can be found on all continents except Antarctica.
Like many spiders, native white spiders are mostly harmless. White spiders otherwise known as crab spiders or Misumena vatia, are poisonous but their venom is not harmful to humans at all. You've heard right; crab spiders just look scary and are not dangerous.

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January 3rd, 2020