Bees is a photograph by Donna Kennedy which was uploaded on March 8th, 2021.
Bees
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy...
On a Spring day at Rancho San Rafael Park I heard a loud buzzing sound so I followed it to... more
Title
Bees
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy...
On a Spring day at Rancho San Rafael Park I heard a loud buzzing sound so I followed it to this spot where a large number of bees were swarming and congregating on a pine limb. After watching them for a while they gathered together and formed a shape that looked like the state of Texas, that photo is included in my Insect Gallery, oh the beauty of nature...
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.
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March 8th, 2021
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Comments (22)
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Donna – your square-format image has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2023 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Brian Tada
Wow, what an amazing discovery, beautifully photographed with stunning clarity, Donna! F/L
Hanne Lore Koehler
WOW, Donna! Amazing close-up capture of this magnificent bee congregation! What a spectacular fleeting nature discovery so beautifully photographed! Brilliant composition! L/F/T