Brilliant Gazania with Bee 1
by Linda Brody
Title
Brilliant Gazania with Bee 1
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Brilliant Red and Yellow Gazania with Honey Bee.
*There are three types of bees in the hive – Queen, Worker and Drone.
*The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her 3 or 4 year lifetime. -*This daily egg production may equal her own weight. She is constantly fed and groomed by attendant worker bees.
*Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
*Honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
*Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
*Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.
*Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
*Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.
*Honeybees have five eyes, 3 small ones on top of the head and two big ones in front. They also have hair on their eyes!
*Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).
*Honeybees never sleep!
Gazania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Southern Africa. They produce large, daisy-like composite flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow and orange, over a long period in summer. They prefer a sunny position and are tolerant of dryness and poor soils.
This photograph has been featured in the following Groups:
The Most Beautiful Flowers
Macro Marvels
Nikon Full Frame Cameras
Floral Photography and Art
Insects - Garden Visitors
Insects Butterflies and Reptiles
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February 11th, 2017
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