Focus Stacked Image of Honeybee with Pollen: The honeybees are making themselves shown and they are hard at work gathering pollen. This is a honeybee that I found expired last year...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

The honeybees are making themselves shown and they are hard at work gathering pollen. This is a honeybee that I found expired last year which I suspect worked itself to death and I keep it preserved in a pill bottle with a mothball.

I staged it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification to show the individual grains of pollen attached to its specialized hairs.

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Sinewsworn Loc: Port Orchard, WA

sippyjug104 wrote:

The honeybees are making themselves shown and they are hard at work gathering pollen. This is a honeybee that I found expired last year which I suspect worked itself to death and I keep it preserved in a pill bottle with a mothball.

I staged it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification to show the individual grains of pollen attached to its specialized hairs.

Wow! The pollen grains show very well!

MFTVGirl Loc: Baltimore, MD

What an amazing look at the bee’s detail and the pollen - a real work of art!

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Sinewsworn wrote:

Wow! The pollen grains show very well!

Thanks, Tim. I find it amazing how evolution has created specialized relationships. The flowers have created their pollen by making it sticky and spikey hooked. The honeybee has evolved with specialized hairs where each hair has a bristle-like appearance to attract and hold the pollen. The plant benefits by having its genes spread to other flowers and the honeybee gets nourishment for itself and the hive. It is a relationship that has benefited both.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

MFTVGirl wrote:

What an amazing look at the bee’s detail and the pollen - a real work of art!

Thanks, MFTVGirl. I appreciate your stopping by.

Dan' de Bourgogne

sippyjug104 wrote:

The honeybees are making themselves shown and they are hard at work gathering pollen. This is a honeybee that I found expired last year which I suspect worked itself to death and I keep it preserved in a pill bottle with a mothball.

I staged it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification to show the individual grains of pollen attached to its specialized hairs.

Once again, an incrédible shot!
I like how the pollen particles are standing out .
A really great picture.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Wow! Another wow factor shot. I’d be thinking od framing that one.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Dan' de Bourgogne wrote:

Once again, an incrédible shot!
I like how the pollen particles are standing out .
A really great picture.

Thanks, Dan. It's nice to know that you enjoyed viewing it.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

BassmanBruce wrote:

Wow! Another wow factor shot. I’d be thinking od framing that one.

Thanks, Bruce. I value your feedback.

saxman71 Loc: Wenatchee

The first time I have seen anything quite like it. Exceptional macro photo work!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

sippyjug104 wrote:

The honeybees are making themselves shown and they are hard at work gathering pollen. This is a honeybee that I found expired last year which I suspect worked itself to death and I keep it preserved in a pill bottle with a mothball.

I staged it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification to show the individual grains of pollen attached to its specialized hairs.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

saxman71 wrote:

The first time I have seen anything quite like it. Exceptional macro photo work!

Thanks, Saxman. I use a microscope objective as the lens of the camera which is how I get the magnification and detail.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Architect1776 wrote:

Thanks, Architect.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Wonderful detail and artistry, Gary!