A Bee Leia

Tiny Tuesday: November Bee

In my search for a Tiny blip I came across a weevil that had become a spider's lunch (I spared you) and this rather large bumblebee.  The bee was visiting the trumpets of the abelia grandiflora, presumably in search of much needed nourishment. The vast majority of florets came away as the bee exited them, and it looked for all the world as though it was pulling them off the plant and throwing them on the floor in disgust.  

I've also given you a shot of calendula girl as an extra.  Not the most attractive of flies, but it certainly adds some interest to the flower ;-)

If you have taken part in the Tiny Tuesday challenge, I hope you've had fun trying to find something small to photograph today.  I will be catching up on your Tiny Tuesday blips during the course of this evening  and tomorrow and will update this page with the results once I have done so.

TINY TUESDAY RESULTS:

This month is my first as a challenge host (I'm somewhat ashamed to admit). But determined to be a good host, I went through all the available TT337 entries yesterday evening, intending to catch any late comers this evening.  I don't know how Blip's search result works, but I sort of expected the most recent entries to be at one end or other of the pages thrown up by the search.  As it is they just seem to be mixed in.  So I'll definitely leave the reviewing and judging process for 24 hours next time.  After a further trawl this evening I'm pretty sure that I've now seen and commented on every entry.  There were 81 entries in all, that's 11 more than last week.  All in all there have been some excellent entries so my choices have been far from easy.

Favourites:


In no particular order


Dbifulco - bug porn in November.  A little risqué perhaps but the quality of this image is superb.  I suspect many of you will be familiar with Deb's wonderful wildlife photography but if you are not do yourself a favour and check out her journal.  


Hanulli - Sewing  Its not always easy to find bugs and insects, particularly if you are in a part of the world where you are approaching Winter.  But as Hanulli demonstrates, if you are inventive enough you can still create amazing macro shots.  I rather suspect though that you need very steady hands for this stuff.

Gordo - collection.  I'm a sucker for a macro bee shot, and this little honey bees lovely hairy face guaranteed that it would be one of my favourites this week.


osuzanna - The last of the Basil.  The lighting and textures of these last few basil leaves are beautifully presented here.  I very much like the tones of the leaves against the beautifully out of focus background.  

Marlieske - The fly on the Mushroom. Fungi makes a great subject for a Tiny Tuesday macro, but Marlieske has gone one further by accessorising her's with a fly.

Honourable Mentions

I really struggled this week.  Several of these shots could so easily have been my favourites.  There are also a couple of shots that didn't make it into the following 5 that so very nearly squeezed in and I feel guilty for leaving out.  But I've limited myself to just 5 honourable mentions:

Stevvi - flybee.  A superb shot of a flying honey bee, frozen in place by just the right amount of flash. Gorgeous levels of detail.

Rainie - Lavenders - I really liked the isolation of the single stem of lavender against the out of focus background created by the remainder of the plant.

BanksiaMan - Tiny but formidable - a shot of a fascinating assassin bug that he found in his garden. 

AnnieBelle - Tiny spider on an onion weed flower.  I very much like the top down angle on this one and the spider and fly that were unsuspectingly revealed as a result.

Crispin25 - Funny tasting chocolate drops.  Crispin has been stuck in hospital for several weeks now, but somehow he still manages to both retain his sense of humour and blip reasonably regularly.