#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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#bumblebee queens nesting near to one another tend be unrelated or related at a very low level.
Sister queens from the same birth nest will disperse far in different directions before starting their own nests in spring.
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"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot."

All shot using real lighting, figures and miniature sets. I digitally added a glow to Bumblebees canon and eyes the rest is all in camera.

#transformers #bumblebee #photography #miniatures #scifi #creativephotography #movies #practicaleffects #toyphotography #movies #actionfigurephotography #visualart

Plenty of Bombus terrestris workers active near Tower Hill station in London today - chilly but not bitter, and almost warm in the sun, so I guess they were making the most of the big flowering Choisya while conditions were good. Workers were collecting pollen, so active winter nest.

Increasingly over the last 20 or so years, Bombus terrestris has been managing a 3rd, winter active, generation in cities and southern areas of the UK in particular. Exotic winter-flowering shrubs like Choisya and Mahonia are important food sources.

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Ciao Mondo.
Un altro dei nostri presepi alternativi

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Noisy white-tailed #bumblebee on broad-bean flowers, sunny mid-day, 24th Dec. Lightweight sweatshirt temperatures.

While packing-up at dusk (several more layers on me), I noticed the bee was still sitting on the plant. Earlier, watched it make a few efforts to fly then sit back down again. Too cold / not enough food?

...put the leaf it was on, with some sugar-syrup in a bottle-top, down a deep burned-tree root pit and re-covered hole with stone slab. Next morning, bee totally dopey but perked up in sun and gone when I got back. Hopefully to its own nest in the ground. Not seen [or heard!] since.

#climateDiary ...more for people that might like than as a comment on local climate