Once a year when Pam’s gardens are at a summer peak, I venture out to capture her work in early morning light. For this second image of the begonia, I used the same handheld Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III SLR but with the Canon lens EF 70-300 f 4-5.6L ISM variable lens.
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Bumblebees numbers will tell you if local mouse populations are under control. Mice will invade bumblebee burrows to eat the eggs and young. If the bees are plentiful, it means more are escaping mouse predation and only because mouse numbers are low.
This morning, bees of all kinds filled the begonia flowers. Bumblebees were amusing to watch enthusiastically roll around the many stamen of the male flowers, gathering as much pollen as possible.
The lens focal length is set to 84 mm to capture the entire plant, on reviewing the proofs I decided to crop the image down to emphasize the bee.
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 
Love the bee, my husband does beekeeping as a hobby, so big bee lovers in this house.
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Nice…honey is a plus.
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Yeah, we just pulled 180lbs, which is a lo, 4 industrial buckets. So good honey year
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I’d say so. 180 pounds. Impressive.
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We need our bees! I have barely seen any this year, bumble bees, honey bees, anything. Not even wasps.
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Oh no!! Bee numbers are healthy around here. A good number of monarch butterflies, as well.
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No monarchs, either. I worry because the south is so buggy that we are over-using pesticide. Also chem trails
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I’d say so. Good luck with that. Best Wishes
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Great picture
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Hi Theresa, thanks for visiting
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good one….thanks for share
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Lovely bee capture. 😊
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thanks!
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That’s a fascinating point about mice and bumblebee numbers.
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