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95d

Banquet in the Blooms

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #BloomScrolling #Blossom #Garden #Photography #Photo #NaturePhotography #Insects #Bees

A close-up photograph captures a fuzzy bumblebee that looks like a Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on the right side of the frame, it has landed on a vibrant purple flower stalk. Perhaps a "Purple Toadflax" (Linaria purpurea). The bee is covered in dense, light-tan hairs across its upper body and a mix of grey and black banding toward its abdomen, with its delicate, translucent wings extended. It appears focused on a single blossom, its head buried in the petals preparing to feed.

The wildflower stalk extends vertically through the center of the image, showcasing a dense cluster of rich purple and violet snapdragon-like blossoms blooming at the bottom, while tightly closed green buds taper toward the top. A tiny, light-brown insect rests on one of the lower petals. The background is softly blurred, filled with lush green foliage and a few stray, dry twigs that put the focus entirely on the bee and its flower.

The photographer's watermark in the corner reads "Paul Jackson"

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60d

#bloomscrolling #bees #silentsunday

A small bumblebee in the center of a patch of purple cone flowers. Out of focus in the background are various bits of suburbia: a house, part of a street, and an oversized brick mailbox post. The sky is very blue.

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43d

The morning shift.

#flowers #bloomscrolling #bees #pollinator #garden #photography

Bee at work inside a pink foxglove, morning sun shining through it.

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40d

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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It is often thought that hummingbirds have the highest metabolic rate (energy used per unit of time) of all animals however the metabolic rate of #bumblebees is 75% higher.

‘I love not man less, but Nature more’
- Byron

#bees
#nature #Friday
#environment #wildlife
#education #science
#biodiversity #pollinators

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