Articles tagged with: honeybee
Out today photographing sun-struck bees at the hive, a beautiful backyard afternoon.
Here’s a hive-bound pollen-laden bee back from a successful morning’s forage.
This image also appears in my newest book, Bee Dreams.
The Michigan Beekeepers Association is holding their annual spring meeting in East Lansing at the Kellogg Center this weekend March 13h & 14th. I’ll be there.
Below, a worker bee heavy with a successful morning hunt hurries back to her hive.
A honeybee catches the last rays of a late summer sun.
Spotlight on a honeybee worker, pausing at the chaotic entrance to her hive.
Bees are recognized as part of the colony by their scent, and you’ll recognize me after spending hours with bees by my scent.
Pollen heavy, a honeybee worker flies to meet me, leaving invisible little whirlpools of air behind.
Under a warming blast of sunlight, a honeybee starts the morning search for pollen.
Is this honeybee trying to communicate with me? Waving hello? Goodbye?
Perhaps her companion in the background is hurrying back to the hive to announce my arrival.
A honeybee picks up a load of pollen while a field of Aster, a popular perennial with many different bees and birds, and one of the latest blooming wildflowers.
Some long blades of grass make navigating back to the hive a tricky obstacle course for this honey bee.
Has anyone seen a drop-off in the honey bee population near them this summer?
