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From Birds to Bees

From Birds to Bees

In Australia we have over 1,700 Australian Native Bees  I haven't spotted the Blue Banded Bee to date but we have noticed they don't appear until it is really warm. I can always hear them as they are much loader than our Honeybee. Most of the bees we have on our property are the Honey Bees (see below 4 images) Today I spotted something that looked very small land on a Grevillea flower so quickly changed my lens so I could capture it. It was an Australian Native Bee. Australia has eleven species of the small black Stingless Bee (see...

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Our Property Is A Buzzing With Bees

Our Property Is A Buzzing With Bees

I never get tired or sick of the buzzing sound of bees which we have all year round, thanks to the many natives trees, shrubs and flowering gums. I heard that Bees can remember human faces and that doesn't surprise me because when I am photographing them I get up so close to them and they appear to look at me and I have never been stung by one yet (touch wood). So how did honey start?  From reading and researching bees, I have learnt that in 2006 the oldest know Bee known as  Melittosphex Burmensis  was found encased in...

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Bees Are Very Important and Very Precious

Bees Are Very Important and Very Precious

My favorite captures this week are the amazing very clever Bees spreading the word about how important they are for our worlds survival They never stop buzzing from flower to flower collecting all the pollen Another important food source for the bees is nectar Bees do an amazing job pollination  If we don't stop using pesticides and chemicals and fertilisers our Bee colonies all over the world will be destroyed.  If all our Bees die we will not have a world to live in, we will have no trees, flowers, plants, no oxygen to breath, this is just putting it mildly....

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