Bee piccies, as requested by naurring

[enismirdal]

I've taken a few photos of the bees, but my camera and the bees were not really that cooperative! My macro-fu is non-existent, and they don't photograph too well through perspex so I was trying to snap them without letting any out.


This is the bee colony! I've tried to label the main interesting bits to give a feel for what's going on in there! (Better resolution but unlabelled pic here).


A quick peek in the naughty box. The lego brick is like a secondary feeder - the main feeder only has a small hole so only one bee at a time can feed, but holds a lot more sugar solution. They seem to prefer the lego brick!

The marked bee was one I was quite fond of - she's rather big and always seemed rather placid. She's retired now, as I needed some new foragers to come out, so she got relocated to the naughty box.


A slightly dodgy picture of a bee on a feeder. The feeder is empty as they are hungry bees, but I gave them food on plastic training chips instead (you can just about see one behind the feeder). That bee is the same one as the bee in the middle of the colony pic, with the red and blue marks.


Very very dodgy quality picture of a Bombus terrestris xanthopus queen in the access tunnel to her flight arena. She wouldn't keep still and there's so much reflection off the tunnel! It's not the queen of the colony, just a random young queen who presumably emerged in the last couple of days.

Those are all the ones that came out semi-well - my battery died and the camera didn't like running off mains power.

Now to work on the stupid "Skills and Training Report" for my advisory panel meeting tomorrow. Gah gah gah.

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[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! I could watch the colony all day - I think they are getting sick of looking up and seeing me ogling them!