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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

I was staring at the #garden when having dinner just now and saw what looked like a dark motionless blob hanging below some #Allium #Florets. When I got closer I found it was this #bumblebee which was suspended from its hind legs only. I think it may be dead although I've know #bees to fall asleep on these plants before. But if it is dead, wouldn't it have fallen off? I don't know. If it's still there in the morning, I will presume it has expired. If not, it's sleeping in a funky way.

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

The plants in the #garden, in association with altruistic #insects, are doing rather well. The #Tomatoes, which are in reality about 2 cm in diameter, are at various stages of ripeness.

Here's a group of yet #green ones on a single #stalk.
Unripe tomatoes on a stalk

And here's a close up of another bunch.
Close up of green tomatoes

Cropping the above image, you can really see some fine detail including fine hairs and yellow dust-like particles on both the #fruit and the stalk.
Extreme close up of tomatoa

There are a few #red tomatoes and here's a few amongst verdant surroundings.
Ripe tomatoes

Here, I actually like the texture of the background piece of #wood in contrast with the foreground living #plant,
Tomatoes and wood

Switching to another plant, I managed to capture the image of this #Bumblebee. They spend only moments on each #RunnerBean #flower before moving onto the next one and so it's difficult to get a decent #photograph of them in action.
Bee on a runner bean flower

Here you can see little runner beans developing. Typically, they will eventually become 20-30+ cm in length in #autumn.
Runner beans and flowers

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watt@diasp.org
Gary Hill

Bee here now… A very interesting and thought provoking article…
I have placed a link to the book, where you can watch a video interview
with the author and read some sample pages from the book…
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#Photography
#Photographer
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#ImageManipulation
#jiggerypokery
#SundayGimp
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#LarsChittka
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/16/bees-are-really-highly-intelligent-the-insect-iq-tests-causing-a-buzz-among-scientists

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silvialdovini@diasp.org
Silvia Aldovini

Man at work
The bees visited us yesterday :)
Yesterday afternoon a swarm of bees started spinning around the courtyard ... thousands! Through the dedicated service of the Fire Brigade I contacted a beekeeper. Here is Mr Borghi at work ...
The swarm arrived in the early afternoon, the beekeeper at 5 pm and it took more than four hours for the operation to complete. Firefighters told me they got about 50 calls yesterday about the same problem ... apparently it's the season when New Queens swarm to settle in new territories ...
#Photography #MyPhoto #Bees #Swarm #Rescue #Hive #Modena #Italy

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