Fly this fast and the world never looks the same,
the tipsy universe whips by in a wing’s beat.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A spontaneous leap into a new space age,
escaping an exhausted flower, ignoring old sign-posts.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A toy-box explorer with a troubled back-story
attempts to map the overcrowded microwilderness,
finding larger patterns in the small spaces between buds.
 

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Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae

A sharp honey bee on her way to the wild side of the garden,
too chic for her own good.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Returning home with ill-gotten gains,
slicing through the garden,
skyscraper stems bend and sway,
a scale model speeds through space.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

One of my honey bee images was published in the latest issue of Greenpeace Magazin
in Germany.
 

It’s a nicely designed magazine, with some excellent content.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

The tough, public face of the 4th annual
National Pollinator Week,
a hunter-gatherer full of pollen to the point
of rebellion, the fruits of her labor
taken to bizarrely stylish extremes.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A miraculous pollen-seeker,
energy enough to exhaust
the average hunter-gatherer,
mixes bravura style and performance
in the greatest American road trip.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A battleship costumed in ocher and black stripes,
Bombus impatiens, animating the everyday
with aster-blasting distraction.
 

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Bumblebee | Bombus impatiens

A bumblebee trip fueled by sunlight packets,
a brief appearance speeding through aster space,
only to disappear again into
fifty thousand watts’ of setting sun.
 

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Bumblebee | Bombus impatiens

The soundless drama of curling spiral tongues
liberating nectar from a flower’s gravity well.
 

Butterflies, one of the first signs of spring.
This is a female Cabbage White on the south shores of Canada.