One Bee, Four Views

The lovely 'Black & Blue' salvia plant seen in my previous blip is attracting both western honey bees and hummingbirds!

I had a wonderful time photographing an individual worker honey bee at about 8:30 a.m. today. She stayed on the same flower stalk, and I moved around her to get the variety of light and backgrounds you see in my main photo and the three extras. What a treat that was!

A few of the many interesting facts found on Wikipedia: The western honey bee can be found on every continent except Antarctica. It is the single most important pollinator for agriculture worldwide. They create colonies with a single fertile female (the "queen"), many non-reproductive females ("workers"), and a few fertile males ("drones"). Colony activities are organized by complex communication between individual bees through both pheromones and the dance language.

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