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Re: [OM] Un-Bee-Lievable!

Subject: Re: [OM] Un-Bee-Lievable!
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:54:27 -0500
Hi Chris,

Our insects were very late in arriving this year.  In the past week, we 
have had four types of butterflies, a few honeybees, and quite a few 
carpenter bees.

So far, I have not seen a true bumblebee this year.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/1/2013 1:41 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>> That's an E-M5 with the 12-50 kit lens in macro mode. Focus was
> challenging
>>> because the breeze was blowing the bush around quite a bit.
>>>
>>> The flower is a Texas Silver Sage.
>>>
>>       I have four different cultivars of that (Silver Cloud, White Cloud,
> Green
>> Cloud, and the original Texas Ranger).  They should all be blooming in the
> next
>> couple of weeks and I'm going to be out with the tripod, etc. to capture a
> few
>> bee photos.  Seems we have over a dozen species floating around when those
> bloom.
>      Right now every rain sage in the neighbourhood is in full bloom, as are
> Mexican Bird of Paradise and Yellow Bells, and yet not a single solitary bee
> is to be found.  Last year you could hear them from a short distance, but
> now it's dead quiet all day long.
>
>      Uh-oh!
>
> Chris
>


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