Bumble Bee on Datura Flower
I had a little visitor as I was taking pictures of the datura flower. Isn't my visitor cute? It was fairly curious and kept a close eye on my as I took pictures of the flower and itself. After it had seen all it wanted to see it buzzed off to another datura flower. Perhaps this is one of the bees I have rescued from a night being trapped in the flower.
The datura flowers close in the evening time and if an unsuspecting insect is inside gathering nectar it will be stuck there until the flower opens the next morning. I have rescued numerous insects from these flowers.
I used my Nikon D80 to take this picture. The lens was a Nikon Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4 - 5.6. Photo editing was done in Aperture 1.5.
27. October 2007, 21:32
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