24Apis mellifera

European honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Bee and crocus

Spring is in the air and the sun shines through the flowers of the Prunus serrulata 'Amanogawa'. The buff-tailed bumblebee is searching for...More

The busy bee

Bee collecting nectar from a mallow blossom

Moving lightly over the earth
with a heavy load of pollen,
her shift ending pretty much
the same as the last.

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Honey bee entering a crocus

No shadows left in a world wrapped in bee dreams,
new pollen flavors for each minute of the day,
a garden bar that never closes.
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A bee peers out from a noir mystery,
listening for her Queen, still tempted
by the dark delights in the garden.

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Lured back to the hive after a heist gone bad,
a pair of pollen smugglers ignore
the bright chaos, their crimes darken the sky.
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No memories of a lost space age,
stripping away pollen,
her new freedom a better fit for the times.

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Returning to an unruly hive after a secret mission,
a honey bee's sunlit swagger sings
of an endless landscape of pollen.

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Bent on misadventure, a streaming
squadron of bees dissolves into the sun,
unhooking their anchor to my garden.

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The beekeeper told me the specie. The Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica Pollman; Carnica T.H.) is a subspecies of the western honey bee. At...More

I was chasing some bees in my garden but they only stop at each flower for one second or so, until one of them took a little break on this pole. I'm...More

Backyard Beekeeping - Apis mellifera

3-story hive is up, bees are doing fine.
I'm a backyard beekeeper now.

How many...More

The day's last flight,
outrunning the sun in a search for pollen,
a bladed bridge surrenders to a frozen leap.

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A golden trickster has the best pair of wings
this side of the Moon.

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A stingerless drone hasn't forgotten how to seduce,
his large compound eyes see through the queen's charade
as he falls back to...More

Rushing through a seconds-long scavenger hunt,
a honey bee whistles past,
surfing on the morning light.

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The light dances over a honey bee's impossible glamour,
star of my backyard hall of mirrors,
leaving traces of her passion
on every...More

Honey bees aflame slip through an ephemeral landscape
of angled blades.

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We're rapidly running out of winter,
and a summer squadron flies
out of the past like a mirage,
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The ongoing adventures of a honey bee,
her unpredictable twists a mutiny against the sky.

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