Registered: May 31, 2007
Total Posts: 208
Country: United States
My Cherry Tree and Peach trees are blooming and every year after the first bloom and about a month there after you need to be careful coming and going as the trees just buzz like an airport and filled with bees of at least 3 different species. They don't seem bothered by the coming and goings of the people in the house and don't bother you as you go past. Every year I like to watch them a little as they work away. I know my bees and know when someone different show up.
As I was outside enjoying the butterflies as they enjoyed the Phlox I heard this sound... it sounded like a jet liner was l anding in my yard. (Ok a bit of farce, but it was loud) I looked around and landed on this gorgeous beauty in my Cherry Tree...
He really seemed to be enjoying the cherry blossoms and was not at all bothered by my shoving a lens in his face. The other bees seemed to be at first concerned about his arrival, but later settled down to suck up the pollen off the blossoms. I tried to get a flying shot of him, but he was WAY too fast for me to catch him. (I couldn't follow him with the camera)
I left him alone for awhile and started following a Monarch around who enjoyed my ground covering Phlox.
I got a Fisheye Wide Angel Macro, I still have to figure out how to use it though. Interesting looking little thing.