Busy Bee #3
by Nick Boren
Title
Busy Bee #3
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Image
Description
I love watching bees, they never stop working and are very industrious!
From Wikipedia:
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to Eurasia. They are known for their construction of perennial colonial nests from wax, the large size of their colonies, and surplus production and storage of honey, distinguishing their hives as a prized foraging target of many animals, including honey badgers, bears and human hunter-gatherers. Only eight surviving species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 43 subspecies, though historically 7 to 11 species are recognized. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees.
The best known honey bee is the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination; the only other domesticated bee is the eastern honey bee (Apis cerana), which occurs in South Asia. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, and have been kept by humans for that purpose, including the stingless bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. Modern humans also value the wax for use in making candles, soap, lip balms, and various cosmetics.
The Fine Art America watermark will be removed before it is sent to the purchaser. Thank You.
Uploaded
May 24th, 2022
Embed
Share
Comments (7)
Dr Debra Stewart's Gallery
Congratulations, your amazing image has been featured in the Intent of the Artist group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2021- 22 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page)
Nick Boren
Thank you Sharon for featuring my bee/flower image in your Macro group. I really appreciate it. :-)
Nick Boren
Thank you Brooks for featuring my bee/flower image in your Pixels Promotion group. I appreciate it very much! :-)
Nick Boren
Thank you Judy for featuring my bee/flower image in your USA Photographers Only group. I appreciate it! :-)