A Beautiful Western Honey Bee on a male Desertbroom plant. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MyOtherUsername@lemmy.world to c/macrophotography@lemmy.world

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Canon T7. Sigma 105mm.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe I'm just ignorant about bees, but why is the abdomen like twice the size of normal?

[-] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Queen bees have long abdomen like this, but it would be rare if ever to see a queen pollinating like that. Once they start laying eggs they are too heavy to fly. I would 90% guess it's a type of bee that I doing know, 10% it's a queen bee

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I'm also wondering this, I stared at the picture for a while trying to figure out if I was just looking at it weird

[-] MyOtherUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Now that you comment on that I thought it was maybe perspective, but all other shots show that looooong abdomen as well. Fingers crossed it means lots of honey for the hive.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I want to pet him

[-] MyOtherUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I tried but they politely evade you all the time :)

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