Posts Tagged: honey bees
It's the Nature of Things
The thing about predators and prey is that it's the nature of things. Take spiders. The many...
Orbweaver eating its wrapped prey, a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two spiders ganging up on a honey bee. One is administering a fatal bite. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dining Where They're Not Wanted
If your hummingbird feeders are filled with that oh-so-tantalizing sweet sugary syrup, you may be...
Honey bees licking the surface of a hummingbird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hummers can reach this syrup but the bees cannot. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here Come the Sun(Flowers)
You can't drive by a sunflower field without smiling. Their golden heads turned toward the sun,...
Honey bee heads for a sunflower in a field off Pedrick Road, Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of honey bee foraging on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Row of hives along sunflower field on Pedrick Road, Dixon, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee-ing Young
Pity the poor worker bee. In the spring/summer months, she lives only four to six weeks and then...
Worker bees working inside the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This worker bee, with tattered and torn wings, still keeps foraging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wild Blue Yonder
Sometimes you see honey bees "making a beeline." Such was the case when this honey bee (below)...
Honey bee heading for blue lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee touches down on "the landing strip" of a blue lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee, wings a soft blur, makes a beeline for a lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)