Male carpenter bees often are seen hovering near nests, and will approach nearby animals. However, males are harmless, since they do not have a stinger. Female carpenter bees are capable of stinging, but they are docile and rarely sting unless caught in the hand or otherwise directly provoked.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
The
western honey bee or
European honey bee (
Apis mellifera) is the most common species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name
Apis is Latin for "bee", and
mellifera is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey.
Denver Botanic Gardens Images in this post all were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6. Lenses include the early 1990s "Magic Drainpipe" and original trombone-style EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.
Busy Bees Carpenter bees make nests by tunneling into wood, bamboo, and similar hard plant material such as peduncles, usually dead. They vibrate their bodies as they rasp their mandibles against hard wood, each nest having a single entrance which may have many adjacent tunnels.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
Very nicely done, Paul. The full screen images are beautiful.
CHG_CANON wrote:
Male carpenter bees often are seen hovering near nests, and will approach nearby animals. However, males are harmless, since they do not have a stinger. Female carpenter bees are capable of stinging, but they are docile and rarely sting unless caught in the hand or otherwise directly provoked.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
The
western honey bee or
European honey bee (
Apis mellifera) is the most common species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name
Apis is Latin for "bee", and
mellifera is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey.
Denver Botanic Gardens Images in this post all were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6. Lenses include the early 1990s "Magic Drainpipe" and original trombone-style EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.
Busy Bees Carpenter bees make nests by tunneling into wood, bamboo, and similar hard plant material such as peduncles, usually dead. They vibrate their bodies as they rasp their mandibles against hard wood, each nest having a single entrance which may have many adjacent tunnels.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
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wow beautiful full screen shots, paul!!
Nice set, Paul. I hate those Carpenter Bees, though.
Thank you Joe, tcthome, merrytexan, Ken! These carpenter bees can be scary, hovering around and thinking about moving into the wood boards of the benches in the garden.
joecichjr
Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
Great shots of difficult subjects, Paul!
Great shots Paul.
I shot (and posted) a few 'bifs' last year in my backyard. Looking forward to more practice this summer. Interesting subject.
Thank you joecichjr, Mike, Ronnie! These are older images, more a matter of collected luck over various locations to present a group of 'in flight' bees. As I think of the 4 or 5 times I was out specifically for bees and flowers in 2020, I don't think I have any 'in flight' results that would fit into this group. Glad you enjoyed.
CHG_CANON wrote:
Male carpenter bees often are seen hovering near nests, and will approach nearby animals. However, males are harmless, since they do not have a stinger. Female carpenter bees are capable of stinging, but they are docile and rarely sting unless caught in the hand or otherwise directly provoked.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
The
western honey bee or
European honey bee (
Apis mellifera) is the most common species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name
Apis is Latin for "bee", and
mellifera is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey.
Denver Botanic Gardens Images in this post all were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6. Lenses include the early 1990s "Magic Drainpipe" and original trombone-style EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.
Busy Bees Carpenter bees make nests by tunneling into wood, bamboo, and similar hard plant material such as peduncles, usually dead. They vibrate their bodies as they rasp their mandibles against hard wood, each nest having a single entrance which may have many adjacent tunnels.
Carpenter Bee by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
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Fantastic set of images!!!
Wonderful set Paul! I love the last one with the perfectly chosen shutter speed.
Paul, you do such outstanding posts! Your photos are great and you do enough research that you can give interesting background on the items. Thanks for the post!
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