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Bee in flight - tongue out :)
Just found this from a visit to Hilliers Gardens @ Romsey, Hants a few months ago OOC just resized


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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
'Not bad at all for an amateur', as we say in Oz when we are impressed.

Now Chevvy, let me see one BIF with 'tongue in cheek', eh?
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Interesting,,,,

why on earth would it do that ???


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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
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Interesting,,,,

why on earth would it do that ???


great capture
Agreed but it obviously doesn't like it's photo taken!

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why on earth would it do that ???

To impress the ladies?
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
I forgot to add - "Great Capture."
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
Interesting shot, it may bee [sic] in some kind of distress, looks like it has a few bee mites on it.
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Interesting shot, it may bee [sic] in some kind of distress, looks like it has a few bee mites on it.
Oh Pete, I wish you hadn't told us that! Poor little thing!
Chevvy - now we need to see a photo of a Bee Mite please?
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Oh Pete, I wish you hadn't told us that! Poor little thing!
Apologies Lyn. Nature is brutal at times, and mites/ticks and other parasites are so foul.

I just had a read around and yes, those three pink mites are likely to be the problem (there will be many more not visible). It even states in several places that the exposed proboscis is a signal of distress due to mite infestation, bees become weakened and susceptible and the mites effectively finish them off. Those mites on that bumble are not the now infamous and dreaded varroa mite, as the varroa only infects the hives of the two main honey bee species.

It all makes the image that more fascinating.
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Apologies Lyn. Nature is brutal at times, and mites/ticks and other parasites are so foul.

I just had a read around and yes, those three pink mites are likely to be the problem (there will be many more not visible). It even states in several places that the exposed proboscis is a signal of distress due to mite infestation, bees become weakened and susceptible and the mites effectively finish them off. Those mites on that bumble are not the now infamous and dreaded varroa mite, as the varroa only infects the hives of the two main honey bee species.

It all makes the image that more fascinating.
It is fascinating Pete, and thank you for the info. I had never thought of mites attacking such small things, although am aware when watching the birds bathe in my bird bath that they are most likely doing it to get rid of mites etc. I like to think they are having fun too.
I guess beekeepers have to spray their hives against infestation too?
I must follow this up for interests sake.
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
Great photo Chevvy...plus you learn something new everyday.
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
WoW ! I was out yesterday and wake to see ALL your posts

As requested a "Mighty Bee" so no Bee Mite (singular) Lyn



This shot was posted in a Being Day last year ...

Thanks to Mark, Richard, David M, John,m Pete, Lyn and Paul

ps Mark, I have something Tongue in cheek will find and post
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
We're all carrying freeloaders of one kind or another. Summed up a great many years ago by the author Jonathan Swift...

Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum...

With the electron microscope, this has proved so, so true... I'm off now for a good scratch.
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Re: Bee in flight - tongue out :)
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Interesting,,,,

why on earth would it do that ???


great capture
It's just been very badly brought up.

Superb photo though Chevvy! How on earth did this one end up languishing for "a few months"?
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It's just been very badly brought up.

Superb photo though Chevvy! How on earth did this one end up languishing for "a few months"?
David, periodically, I lose my MoJo and just get fed up with my photos and my photography ... then sometime later I may look through photos of a day out and see "something like this" and think "I could share that, it may entertain some friends!"

I have a few from our hols - must go and find them - I know you'all will LURVE THEM
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