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Often mistaken for flies due to their diminutive size, their colour and their erratic flight. And they don't keep still for long! So very tiny.
Here, I captured one of the bees feeding on a Nemesia flower, itself only 20 mm in diameter. I love that the antennae are carefully held down against the head to allow for real penetration.
I grow these pretty little flowers each spring as they are clearly enjoyed by the native bees.
Stingless sugarbag bee Tetragonula carbonaria 4 mm body length.
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Leioproctus plumosus is commonly called the feathery Leioproctus bee. Yesterday, with delight, I watched tens of these - probably around a hundred - swarming over one of my Callistemon bottlebrush shrubs.
These bees spend almost all year underground in tunnels that females dig in sandy soils. In spring, males and females begin flying, foraging and mating.
Around 7 mm length.
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I made this photo of a bee on flower during our visit to Filoli historical house and gardens on July 15, 2021. This had been our first visit since California relaxed the Covid-19 restrictions; restrictions that were soon reimposed because of the Delta variant of the virus. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50.
I made this photo of a bee on pink flower during our July 15, 2021 visit to Filoli Historic house and gardens in the town of Woodside, 25 miles south of San Francisco. Melody and I made this visit with my sister on an extended day out a month after California relaxed most Covid-19 restrictions. Lucky we got in so much sun and photography on that day, because the restrictions were reimposed shortly after. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50.
This is a cropped version of a bee and flower closeup that I made on July 15, 2021 when Melody, my sister Mary, and I visited Filoli Historic house and gardens in the town of Woodside, 25 miles south of our San Francisco home. There were plenty of bees throughout the 16 acres of gardens on this, as there are on most days at Filoli. We squeezed in a visit a month after the many Covid-19 restrictions had been lifted in California on June 15, 2021. Pandemic restrictions were reimposed shortly after this visit due to Delta and other variants of the virus.
I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50.
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Here is a bee doing what bees do best, gathering pollen! Another one of my attempts at shooting an insect in manual focus.
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This was the first of a series of photos I made of flowers that grow from one Calandrinia plant in the back yard of our San Francisco home. This one ha a very prominent bee hunting pollen from the middle of the pretty pink flower. Since the lavender plants in our yard are rather subdued this time of year, bees ten more toward calandrinia flowers like this one and blossoms on our lemon tree. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50 from about 15 feet away with elevated POV from the edge of our deck that stands about a meter above the yard.
I made this photo of a bee on a pink calandrinia flower while I was photographing various things in the backyard of our San Francisco home. We only have one calandrinia plant enclosed with an 18 inch round scalloped border. These plants are so hardy that they need little water - in fact do not like very much water - and the propagate themselves without any coaxing. They also attract lots of bees along with occasional butterflies and hummingbirds. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50.
