While watering my garden the other day, I noticed this large bee sitting atop one of my coreopsis blooms. What amazed me was that he was so intent on gathering nectar that nothing I did scared him away, not even when I had to break off a dead flower that was leaning right up against him in order to get a clear shot with my camera. At one point, I even wondered if he was dead, but then I could see his little butt moving as he worked, so I knew he wasn’t. These are the bees that I like – the ones that are concentrating on their work and not buzzing around my head making me run for cover :).
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Astounding and beautiful!
Thank you! I was pleased with the amount of detail :).
That is so cool..nice shot
Why thank you! Cute isn’t it? 🙂
Amazingly cool!!! 🙂 **
I’m really glad you liked it! I am to please :).
Oops, that was supposed to be aim to please LOL
😀 The other day I tried to photograph a bee – didn’t work! He was so busy flitting from flower to flower, he just wouldn’t sit still long enough for me to take a picture. Nice one.
That’s why I was so excited about this one because he just sat there. I didn’t even have my camera with me. I was just checking my flowers, saw him, ran inside to get my camera, and he was still there waiting for me when I came back outside. Lucky day for me!!
Wow!
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Great shot Cindy.
By any chance was it early in the day and on the cool side? I’ve come across the same thing before and it makes it really easy to get a photograph. When it’s chilly out they can’t fly very well, if at all. Now I just need a way to get them to stay still when it is warmer out… 😉
Actually Jeff, it was about 4pm, but it was the same day that I took all those pictures of the black storm clouds, so maybe he was just hunkering down to weather the storm. I’ve seen animals do that, so maybe insects do too, but I’m not sure.
Could very well be, the critters have a better internal sense of incoming weather than we’ll ever have.
I don’t know about that Jeff. You should feel the killer headaches I get when the pressure changes LOL!!
Lovely macro 🙂 Very well shot.
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