Busy Bee
by Dawn Currie
Title
Busy Bee
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Extreme close-up of a busy native bee with legs covered with pollen from flowers he has visited.
Awards and PSA International Exhibitions:
- 2016 National Insect Salon
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Native bees are an unappreciated treasure, with 4,000 species from tiny Perdita to large carpenter bees, they can be found anywhere in North America where flowers bloom. Native pollinators, in particular bees, had been doing all the pollination in this continent before the arrival of imports from the Old World. They continue to do a great deal of it, especially when it comes to native plants.
The European honey bee, remarkable as it is, doesn't know how to pollinate a tomato or an eggplant flower, while some native bees are masters at this. The same thing happens with a number of native plants, such as pumpkins and watermelons, blueberries and cranberries, which are more efficiently pollinated by native bees than by honey bees.
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April 24th, 2013
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Comments (42)
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Dawn – your beautiful bee has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add to the Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's G IS FOR GOLDEN WEEK You are invited to add this to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Anita Faye
Dawn, happy to feature your beautiful work on Groovy Butterflies! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Gary Hall
What an awesome capture showing this busy bee doing what busy bees do. Excellent composition, detail and color. I've been admiring your work since I first joined these discussions. I thoroughly enjoyed my surprise visit to your "Small World" gallery.