Our honey bee population in the US continues to decline and the experts still trying to find out why.
I had photographed this honey bee visiting a Spiderwort flower, and had so much fun watching him work the flower over for pollen, through my macro lens.
Thanks Ian, Tony, Julie, Brian, Marian and Digiscoper for the great comments, they are so appreciated.
It was so rewarding to capture this honey bee, as he was constantly moving to collect the pollen. I had quickly taken my Nikon off the Mirror Up shooting and switched to Continuous High-Speed shooting. Even though my Nikkor 105mm lens has autofocus, I never use it, so it was a challenge to keep pace with the bee ( I love a good challenge ) I was doing a manual focus quickly while this excitement for me was happening.
You should really send him/her home Darlene his knees are overloaded with pollen, wow, what a stunning capture :clap: :clap: . I hope their numbers will go up again, without the bees, well that would be horrible. :eek!:
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