Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Bombus mixtus

What a joy it is to dive into an archive folder and discover another treasure! Steve and I went to the top of the Lower Tablerock with a friend back in the spring of 2013, and I had a great time taking pictures. At one point I heard a lot of buzzing and noticed that the Manzanita flowers were being visited by countless bees, beetles and other insects. I spent about 20 minutes clicking away, and this lucky shot was one of my prizes!! Explored on February 10, 2016. Highest placement, #38.

"Air Control to Bumble Bee, you are cleared to land. We repeat, all other insects have departed, you may land at any time!" :D In May of 2013, Steve and I got to visit a friend's garden to take pictures and I spent a few hours totally immersed in complete bliss. Along with a seemingly endless variety of flowers, there were ferns and hostas, and of course, plenty of bees and other insects who were making rounds. I was delighted when I managed to get this cool capture to share with you today!

I was able to get close enough to show the prisms in this bee's eyes! I'm sure it was extremely unimpressed with my macro flash! I took only a few pictures and then left them in peace! Sorry Bumbles!!

Here is a close-up of one of the bees inside its beautiful accommodations! It was lightly raining but not so hard that it was a danger to my camera! I couldn't ask for prettier conditions to take a picture of this darling bee! :)

Every day I go out to appreciate the beautiful crocus that are in full bloom in our front yard, and naturally I cannot help but take pictures. Yesterday afternoon I saw something on one of the flowers as I approached and whispered to myself, "Oh! Could that be a bee?! I moved over very slowly and sure enough, there was a bumble bee on one of the flowers! But wait!! There were TWO! I couldn't believe it!! And the story gets better!! I was a little sad because I would have liked to make the bees my pick of the day but I'd already chosen the hawk from earlier. No matter, they would make lovely alternate shots, right? Well, last night when I let the dogs out, I had a suspicion so I checked the flowers. I wondered about them yesterday afternoon because they'd been moving very sluggishly in the rapidly cooling temperature. As it turned out, they were too cold to fly away and decided to sleep inside the flowers overnight!! Absolutely amazing! And best of all, I popped outside this drizzly morning, hoping it was still too cold for them to fly, and what do you know...the cutie pies were crawling around in and out of the flowers and I got my pick of the day!!! YAYYY!!!!! I feel so incredibly lucky and fortunate to get these pictures!! (By the way, I'll have a couple of others to share of them in a week or two--I thought it would be better to spread them out.) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Wikipedia: Jacques Cousteau Explored on Flickr on February 28, 2013. Highest position: #106.

I don't know about you, but I could hardly believe my eyes when I found these darling bees sleeping in the crocus blossoms last night! This is something an illustrator draws for a children's book. You don't actually see this for real! Well, here we are!! Now, repeat after me: "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!" :D :D :D