En liten tøffing som egentlig ikke er noen tøffing, men som later som han er noe han slett ikke er! (Slik mange av oss også gjør i det daglige). Dette er en ganske vanlig ‘blomsterflue’ og ikke en bie med giftbrodd. Ganske ufarlig!
A small ‘though guy’ who actually is nothing of the sort, but who pretends to be something he’s not! (Just like many of us do in our ‘everyday lives’? ) This is a quite common ‘flower fly’ without any form of toxic sting. Absolutely harmless!
(Compliments of SRB )
Please return me to INDEX
eating away all nectar before the butterflies and the bees..nectar was sweet.
Well, there were a thousand other flowers on the meadow, – and 5000 other insects, I guess 🙂
hmmm
Without his Brother- the ‘real’ Bee we would have no flowers or food!…. They do a wonderful job and yet so many people run from them.. even these little fellows in their masked disguise as a Bee 🙂
It’s a fact, Sue, and there are some warning signs which are not heeded they way they should! Over the last two-three years the population of bumblebees and ordinary bees has receded by more than 38%. In China they have been pollinating their apple farms by hand for a number of years already.
Imagine what will happen to the earths suply of food in another 3-5 years if the bee population drops another 30%? It’s blamed mainly on insecticides, but the farmers think ‘short term revenue’.
Yes this is a sad fact and here too we noticed Less Bee’s Last year.. A person in a nearby allotment from us has put a hive on his plot last year, so we are hoping it thrives .. Every Beehive helps.. 🙂
I think the world should pass a law (every country) that every farmer in the world ought to have at least one acre with a so called ‘flower field’ where no isecticides were allowed.
Perhaps we could curb the decrease somewhat? In the meantime they ought to find insecticides that wasn’t as harmful to bees/bumlebees as the one the use today.
Just imagine what would happen if nothing got pollinated? It would affect most anything and not only what we people are eating.
We would Starve pure and simple! ..
I saw a project somewhere in England, on a farming programme whereby they were doing just that… Allowing Fields to return to meadow land..
I have spent some time out in Austria on various vacations and the meadow lands there are unbelievable , so rich and full of flowers, and the cattle eat what is cut as hay… not this man-made chemical feeds..
Yes, we would. At least the majority of us! As I said here: In China they have been pollinating their apple farms for years! They can do that due to cheap labour, but – chinese wages are also increasing. T do something similar in the US have been estimated to 9 billion dollars a year and the final bill will come to us that purchase apples!
Pretty soon nobody can afford apples and in a future (not too far ahead) most of us will be eating red, green and blue tablets for dinner! (I’m rather happy with my age)
Yes, thats why we need to keep peoples awareness levels high in these area’s for our future generations… I understand why I have a very determined intelligent two year old granddaughter.. for they will be the ones left to pick up our left over pieces!
It may already be to late, I’m afraid. The next two years will be crucial! Working within macro photography I have noticed that bees (mostly bumblebees) are under attack from a specie of mites! Around the head and shoulders of a bumblebee there may be as many as a dozen such mites draining their life away, so it’s not only insecticides but a combination of several things. Medaows are of no use once the bees and the bumblebees have gone – but let’s hope new species might develope . . .
Yes the mites are one of the causes of the decline in our bees. and many hives have been hit.. Let us live in hope my friend..
Such a beautiful colorful creature !
Hello Maryam,
The nature is filled with wonders and macro photography is a wonder world of its own.
Pleased that you liked it!
Great macros. 😉 Ha en fortsatt finfin dag!
Thank you! Makes a change in the daily threadmill 🙂