I took this photograph the other day while in my garden merrily snapping away with my camera at everything that took my fancy. By the time I got this image (and the 200 thousand others, more or less, that I took at the same time in the hope of getting at least one decent picture), I'd forgotten what it was I had been photographing. What is that thing that looks like an egg-beater hanging from below the penstemon flower? I knew I'd taken a photograph of a bee and there's a black leg or antennae sticking out to prove it, and a bee's furry back and bum, but I can only guess that the 'egg-beater' is a wing that is in rapid motion. Odd, because usually the bees wings are folded down when they enter a flower. This one is clearly in danger of falling out!
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| Bumblebee inside a penstemon flower - macro photo |
This last couple of days there have been a lot of bees in my garden and some of the bumblebees have been quite tiny. I can only think that they are baby bumblebees. Awwwwwww.
Please,
save our humble bumblebees