A Bumble Bee Working
by Ms Judi
Title
A Bumble Bee Working
Artist
Ms Judi
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Bumblebees generally visit flowers that exhibit the bee pollination syndrome. They can visit patches of flowers up to 1 to 2 km from their colony. They tend to visit the same patches of flowers every day, as long as they continue to find nectar and pollen, a habit known as pollinator or flower constancy. While foraging, bumblebees can reach ground speeds of up to 15 meters per second.
Bumblebees use a combination of color and spatial relationships to learn from which flowers to forage. They can also detect both the presence and the pattern of electric fields on flowers, which occur due to the positive static charges generated when bees fly through the air, and take a while to leak away into the ground. They use this information to find out if a flower has been recently visited by another bee. After arriving at a flower, they extract nectar using their long tongues and store it in their crops. Many species of bumblebees also exhibit "nectar robbing", instead of inserting the mouth parts into the flower normally, these bees bite directly through the base of the corolla to extract nectar, avoiding pollen transfer. These bees obtain pollen from other species of flowers which they "legitimately" visit.
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August 9th, 2014
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Comments (15)
Donna Kennedy
Wonderful capture Ms Judi, Congratulations on your Special Highlighted Artist Feature this week in WFS!...F/L
Doug Kreuger
Congratulations on your WFS Special Highlighted Artist Feature, Ms Judi! —Outstanding detail for this bee-uty! L&F
Hanne Lore Koehler
Marvelous capture of this amazing bumble bee, Ms Judi! Congratulations on your WISCONSIN FLOWERS AND SCENERY Special Highlighted Artist feature! L/F
Jeannie Rhode Photography
Ms, Adding my Congratulations on your SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTED WFS ARTISTS FOR THE WEEK !
Randy Rosenberger
Congratulations for being one of our present SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTED ARTISTS, as you are very deserving of this special honor. Check it out on top of the Homepage of our site. It surely is a true honor to FEATURE THIS BEAUTY ON OUR HOMEPAGE! Your talents and love for art are surely dominant in this beautiful piece of outstanding art work! Thanks so very much for sharing, so we may enjoy and adore the beauty within! LIKED AND FAVED Forever, Elvis http://fineartamerica.com/groups/wisconsin-flowers-and-scenery.html
Randy Rosenberger
Congratulations for being one of our present SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTED ARTISTS, as you are very deserving of this special honor. Check it out on top of the Homepage of our site. It surely is a true honor to FEATURE THIS BEAUTY ON OUR HOMEPAGE! Your talents and love for art are surely dominant in this beautiful piece of outstanding art work! Thanks so very much for sharing, so we may enjoy and adore the beauty within! LIKED AND FAVED Forever, Elvis http://fineartamerica.com/groups/wisconsin-flowers-and-scenery.html