Hairy Footed Flower Bee – Page 6 – Jill Orme Photography

14 Mar 2023

Solitary

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I’m confident that this won’t be my best shot this season of a hairy-footed flower bee, but getting the first one of the year on camera at all tends to be a challenge, because they’re highly reactive when they’re fresh. … Continued

4 Apr 2022

Old faithful

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I spent a dull morning trying to wrap up a project that’s been irritating and depressing me in almost equal measure for the past week, and finally sent it off at about noon (a full twelve hours before the deadline … Continued

30 Mar 2022

Dark

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

The girls are back in town. When I first went out with the camera this morning it was still heavily overcast and bitterly cold, and apart from a couple of ladybirds the only invertebrates I could find were female bees: … Continued

20 Mar 2022

Flight

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

If I was allowed to change one thing about my body, I wouldn’t ask for sylph-like thighs or a slender, straight nose – or even for fewer chins than I have currently. Instead, I’d like a pair of wings. I … Continued

15 Mar 2022

Resting

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It was a slightly warmer day today, but there was a thin layer of high cloud for much of it, which kept the light hazy. Good for photography, but not so good for getting the inverts flying. Nonetheless, I increased … Continued

13 Mar 2022

Sunday brunch

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Birds, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Walking into the kitchen half way through the morning, I was pulled up short by the sight of this great spotted woodpecker brunching on peanuts. We have two peanut feeders, but the woodpeckers will only use this one, which is … Continued

12 Mar 2022

Motion

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I missed the best part of the day, photographically speaking, because I was cooking this morning, and by the time everything was under way and could be left to its own devices, the warm sunshine had turned patchy, the wind … Continued

5 Mar 2022

Cold

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Don’t let the light and shadow in this photo lull you into thinking that today was warm. As I knelt on the sodden lawn this afternoon, photographing the only one of the hairy-footed flower bees that had braved the frigid … Continued

4 Mar 2022

It begins

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I did pretty well over the winter in terms of finding invertebrates to keep me motivated through the dark months, but nothing – nothing – beats the feeling of seeing the first solitary bee of the season in my garden. … Continued

21 Apr 2021

Well-equipped

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

You don’t have to have a proboscis as long as this to drink from the blossom of a crab apple tree, but it certainly helps – especially if you’re a male bee and you’re not collecting pollen to provision a … Continued

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