pollen dreams, bees and beetles

Longhorn Beetle on a purple flower. The pollen on the beetle accentuates its color  😎

longhorn beetle, aosta, italy. black dots on yellow.

Bumble bee on a dandelion.

bumble bee on a dandelion for pollen

Aosta Valley at the Alps, Italy. Jun 2009.

7 Responses

  1. Hi rocksea,

    Thanks very much for your permission. No need for a higher resolution photo, since the bee’s hairs are already individually visible, and I don’t want to slow down the loading of the page, but thanks for the offer, it’s very much appreciated.

    Cheers,

    Eric

  2. ErictheHalfaBee says:

    Hiya, liked the bee photo a lot, and was looking for something to use as a banner on my blog. I’ve used a crop of the photo here:
    http://ericthehalfabee.wordpress.com/

    Please let me know if you’d rather I didn’t. You can comment below the blog.

    Many thanks if you’re happy to let me use it!

    Cheers,

    Eric

    • rocksea says:

      Dear Eric, I am more than happy to know that you have used the bee for the banner 🙂 Nature is my/our love, and if that bee spreads some fragrant-honey-laden pollen around the web world, our mission is accompolished 😀

      Thank you so much for letting me know as only a few does that! If you need a higher resolution of the same image, I can check upon that.

      Cheers,,

  3. birdy says:

    Though longhorn beetle is somehow out of focus, but it’s looking awesome on purple flower.

  4. Mridula says:

    I tired so hard to click a bee but in the end I had to admit defeat, it would just not settle down. You managed to capture it! Which camera do you use?

    • rocksea says:

      Yes bumble bees very often are in a hurry to go from flower to flower, but this one seems to have got drunk that I got several shots 🙂 I use a Nikon D80 these days, with a macro lens.

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