Coming In To Land, Shot Mid-Air....

Hey everyone, 'shot with the camera' ;). Nice and safe just how nature intended. Of all the pictures I take one of my most favourite are bees in mid-flight as they are about to take off or land. The pollen sacs on the back legs are a bonus and here I was lucky enough to catch that exact shot!

As stated in the last blog we have now had around a week of rain, flooding even in certain areas luckily not here. Bees are very active between the rain breaks, sadly there have not been too many so the bees are consuming all their resources in the hive, honey and nectar etc. Saying that, I have not to date seen these bees foraging my mielies (corn) until now. How lucky I was to not only capture them during the rain breaks but to also manage to get these shots!

Do check out my post here a video of this gorgeous creation in action with some nice shots of her pollen bright yellow recently foraged pollen sacs: https://steemit.com/photography/@craigcryptoking/my-most-amazing-bee-video-ever

These bees only forage one plant at a time, so today busy with the Corn will continue until they are full with pollen and return to the hive offload possibly come back to this plant again or to another species. They only forage one species of flower at a time. Amazing right?

It is quiet plain to see why the bees love these Mielies, if you take the stalk of the plant and shake it, like confetti pollen shoots in all directions, a total abundance of food for these incredible little fantastic creatures!

Here I took a pic of the giant multicoloured glass mielie growing well, I would have thought a little larger at this stage but with all the rain and lack of sun possibly a little stunted at this point!

An interesting development on these plants, not going to last very long as these plants die off after they have finished producing. Can you spot the 2 anomalies in these pics?

This is a weavers nest, 2 actually, I assume built by a very inexperienced male bird, gorgeous to see never the less. He built one, was unsuccessful abandoned that one and tried again on a second plant, both abandoned at this point as one plant already totally collapsed, off to greener pastures he goes, possibly a Tree which actually lasts more than a few weeks?

The more I blog about nature and bees the more inspired I become, it truly is incredibly miraculous and bees in particular the most integral part of our survival, I really hope we can all become more aware of this fact and lobby together to do more to protect them!

Have an incredible Tuesday.

Cheer$;)