White Sugar
by Donna Kennedy
Title
White Sugar
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography and Digital Artwork by Donna Kennedy..
Bee filling up it's pouches with white nectar. Reno, Nevada
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Honeybee hives have long provided humans with honey and beeswax. Such commercial uses have spawned a large beekeeping industry, though many species still occur in the wild.
All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. A hive's inhabitants are generally divided into three types. Workers are the only bees that most people ever see. These bees are females that are not sexually developed. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, circulate air by beating their wings, and perform many other societal functions. The queen's job is simple-laying the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually only a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special diet of a food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen. Queens also regulate the hive's activities by producing chemicals that guide the behavior of the other bees.
Male bees are called drones, the third class of honeybee. Several hundred drones live in each hive during the spring and summer, but they are expelled for the winter months when the hive goes into a lean survival mode.
Bees live on stored honey and pollen all winter, and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. Larvae are fed from the stores during this season and, by spring, the hive is swarming with a new generation of bees.
Thank You to the following Groups that Featured this photo:
-Macro Marvels
-Beauty
-On the Hospital Wall
-Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery
-BUGs BUGs and more BUG
-Premium FAA Artists
-Macro Photography Group
-Fuzzy Warm and Soft
-Creative Art Photography
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April 16th, 2015
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Comments (25)
Phyllis Kaltenbach
NICE! Congratulations, Donna, your wonderful Image has been FEATURED on "Fuzzy, Warm & Soft!". Phyllis
Doug Kreuger
Donna, Congratulations on your WFS Homepage Feature of this outstanding macro shot! L&F
Randy Rosenberger
This piece of fine artwork has earned the honor of being chosen to show off to other artists and prospective buyers here in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group. It is an honor to share this piece of well composed and beautiful art on our homepage. Thanks much for sharing! Liked and Faved Randy B. Rosenberger (administrator of the WFS group)