Bee on a Passion Flower
An unusual Passiflora subpeltata (White Passion Flower) plays host to a visiting Apis mellifera (European Honey bee) , spot-lit so well in the sunlight of early afternoon on a summer day. Just a dusting of the lowest powered fill flash was used to better illuminate the bee.
The shot was made alongside a track in the southern fringe of Sea Acres Nature Reserve , Port Macquarie , NSW, Australia.
Both flower and bee are feral escapees from the garden and apiary and both are causing havoc among Australia’s native species. It seems a quirk of Nature that things so beautiful can cause such damage outside their natural environment.
Fuji S9600: Macro Mode, f/8 @ 1/125sec, Auto Focus, ISO80, Hand held.
Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3.
Visit the Garden Flowers and Insects & Spiders collections in my BubbleSite Gallery for more garden floral and six-legged delights.
UPDATE: 25-8-09
This busy li’l Bee was awarded a MERIT in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s July 2009 Open Print Competition in the Small Prints section.
Enjoy!
GARDEN FLOWERS and HYMENOPTERA
GARDEN FLOWERS
(Click the links!)
Passiflora subpeltata
Crocosmia crocosmiiflora – Montbretia
HYMENOPTERA
(Click the links!)
Apis mellifera & Lagunaria bracteata
Apis mellifera & Thomisus spectabilis
Apis mellifera & Thomisus spectabilis
Trigona carbonaria & Onopordum acanthium
