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Bee and me


Bee and me
Photo Information
Copyright: Igor Germanovic (germma) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1041 W: 38 N: 1046] (9762)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-13
Categories: Daily Life, Nature, Event, Decisive Moment, Macro
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-08-12 23:46
Viewed: 250
Points: 54
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The European honey bee or Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a species of honey bee. In the temperate zone, honey bees survive winter as a colony, and the queen begins egg laying in mid to late winter, to prepare for spring. This is most likely triggered by longer day length. She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced. Except a brief mating period when she may make several flights to mate with drones, or if she leaves in later life with a swarm to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larvae have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees and begins the pupal stage. After another week, it will emerge an adult bee.
For the first ten days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager. The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 40,000 and 80,000 bees.
The honey bee needs an internal body temperature of 35 °C to fly, which is also the temperature within the cluster. The brood nest needs the same temperature over a long period to develop the brood, and it is the optimal temperature for the creation of wax.
The temperature on the periphery of the cluster varies with the outside air temperature. In the winter cluster, the inside temperature is as low as 20 - 22 °C.
Honey bees are able to forage over a 30 °C range of air temperature largely because they have behavioural and physiological mechanisms for regulating the temperature of their flight muscles. From very low to very high air temperatures, the successive mechanisms are shivering before flight and stopping flight for additional shivering, passive body temperature in a comfort range that is a function of work effort, and finally active heat dissipation by evaporative cooling from regurgitated honey sac contents. The body temperatures maintained differ depending on expected foraging rewards and on caste. [1] The optimal air temperature for foraging is 22 - 25 °C. During flight, the rather large flight muscles create heat, which must dissipate. The honeybee uses a form of evaporative cooling to release heat through its mouth. Under hot conditions, heat from the thorax is dissipated through the head. The bee regurgitates a droplet of hot internal fluid--a "honeycrop droplet"--which immediately cools the head temperature by 10 °C
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  • Great 
  • jone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1885 W: 72 N: 0] (18472)
  • [2008-08-12 23:55]

Dobro jutro konsho ;)))
Lepa fotka, kolor i kontrast...
J ;)

Hi İgor,
What a superb close up vith very impressive sharpness, colours and details..TFS.
Pozdrav,

hAyAti

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  • ayse51 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1121 W: 61 N: 763] (12128)
  • [2008-08-13 1:49]

Hi Igor,
great macro and great details.Well done.TFS.Necla.

Hello Igor! Very good composition. Nice light and sharp, very nice colors. Beautiful picture. Well done!

  • Great 
  • Kiwis Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1590 W: 0 N: 184] (12916)
  • [2008-08-13 3:57]

Hi Igor,
Superb macro! Wow! The black background give the place for the alive colors of the flower. A real great shot. Thanks and have a nice day
Diane

Lovely!

Regards,
Carla

Hi Igor,
Very good composition,congratulation.
Best regards,
Ralf

odlican rad Ivane
pozdrav
T

Dobro jutro Igor
wonderful work and images with impressive sharpness,
great colours and details
ciao
Lucio

Hi Igor!
Good color and composition! Excelent macro shot... Great details! Congratulation

Ricardo

Odličan rad Igore!Predivan makro i boje.
Pozdrav.
A.

  • Great 
  • gnada Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2154 W: 58 N: 2578] (14373)
  • [2008-08-13 13:02]

Zdravo Igore...

Jos jedan divan snimak i odlican macro..!
Super boje i PP,
kompliment, George

Hello my friend

A nice firey capture here, good strong colour saturation that contrasts well with the black BG, nice detail and a well balanced shot

TFS regards Helen

Hello Igor,

Wonderful colors of this excellent macro shot!
Very well done and framed!
Congratulations and TFS,
Sergio

  • Great 
  • KrL Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 495 W: 93 N: 386] (6049)
  • [2008-08-13 23:44]

Coucou Igor,
Sympa cette présentation, la fleur qui n'apparait pas en entier et qui dégage tant de luminosité en opposition à ton BG.
Bonne journée

Karèle

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3151 W: 236 N: 7000] (28149)
  • [2008-08-14 1:27]

Interesting notes Igor, and the flower is very pretty. Looks like it was a hard shot of the bee - it isn't easy to get them to stay still
TFS
Janice

  • Great 
  • milas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2180 W: 383 N: 2267] (24221)
  • [2008-08-14 2:54]

merhaba Igor..
verynice shot and macro..superb colors and focus...bravo..selamlar

Zdravo drugar...
Odlican macro snimak...
Odlicna kompozicija...
Pozdrav...
Andro

Excellent shot Igor, bravo.
Dennis

Hi, Igor!

Excellent macro shot, whith nice composition. I like it!

jazmin

Hi Igor,
Super macro, the bee appears to encircled by fire, the colours just glow against the black background, well done, have a nice weekend.
Pete.

  • Great 
  • jawa Gold Star Critiquer [C: 1697 W: 0 N: 1] (11394)
  • [2008-08-15 3:33]

Hi Igor
Good macro in beautiful colour.
Gr Jos

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1528 W: 145 N: 2160] (18806)
  • [2008-08-15 13:47]

Hello Igor, fine image of the bee on that beautiful flower, good technique and great background, thanks!

Mario

  • Great 
  • Nikas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 369 W: 3 N: 92] (1888)
  • [2008-08-15 17:23]

Hi!

Great photo, lovely colours, and i liked tha blak background!

TFS
Ana

Zdravo dragi Igore
Prekrasno je biti sam sa pcelom, zar ne. Mogu i osetiti smesak na tvom licu:) posebno ako ste zajedno doruckovali od tog slatkog nektara :)
Fantastican krop i makro. Izvanredno
Puno pozdrava
Melanija

Hello Igor,

Nice one my friend, good close up and very fine sharp details..
Nice pp work done too..

CM

Hello Igor,
I can't skip this photo as it is truly lovely. I like the 3/4 composition of the vivid flower, and the sharp bee atop just make it perfect. Very good work. Danilo

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