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8 October 202314 September 2024

A bee while immersed in pollen from a passion flower

Un'ape mentre è immersa nel polline da una passiflora

A bee while immersed in pollen from a passion flower.
One of the flowers I love to photograph most is the passion flower.
The kaleidoscope of colors fascinates me greatly.
At that moment there was also a beautiful bee that was stealing the nectar.

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Photo taken with Canon EOS RP and lens Canon RF 24-50.

The name of the genus, adopted by Linnaeus in 1753 and meaning “passion flower” (from the Latin passio = passion and flos = flower), was attributed to it by the Jesuit missionaries in 1610, due to the similarity of some parts of the plant to the religious symbols of the passion of Jesus: the tendrils to the whip with which he was flagellated, the three styles to the nails, the stamens to the hammer, the corolla rays to the crown of thorns.
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A bee being immersed in pollen from a passion flower – Une abeille immergée dans le pollen d’une fleur de la passion – Una abeja sumergida en el polen de una flor de la pasión – Uma abelha sendo imersa no pólen de uma flor de maracujá – Eine Biene taucht in den Pollen einer Passionsblume ein – Một con ong đang đắm mình trong phấn hoa từ một bông hoa đam mê – 一只蜜蜂沉浸在西番莲花粉中 – トケイソウの花の花粉に浸るミツバチ

10 May 20213 December 2020

Fiori di acacia e api operose

Fiori di acacia e api operose.
Un bel fiore anzi, su questa pianta, ci sono dei veri e propri grappoli di fiori che attirano una miriade di api intente a prendere più polline possibile.
Non mi sembra che dalle mie parti ci siano moltissimi di questi alberi.
Uno, quello di cui ho fatto queste foto, è a Santa Margherita di Fossa Lupara, proprio vicino al Circolo Virgola.

Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Tamron 16-300.

Ci sono approssimativamente 1300 specie di Acacia al mondo, di cui circa 960 originarie dell’Australia e le rimanenti diffuse nelle regioni calde e a clima tropicale di entrambi gli emisferi, in Africa, nel sud-est asiatico e nelle Americhe.
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12 November 201914 September 2024

Bees and honey in Vietnam

Bees and honey in Vietnam.
A wonderful insect that gives us one of nature's most exceptional and sweet products: honey.
We were on an excursion in the Mekong River Delta and in one of the first stops we visited a producer of honey and derivatives.
They had us take a picture holding the honeycomb (incredibly, I did it too) and then they made us taste some honey and peanut biscuits accompanied by tea sweetened, obviously, with honey.

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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Tamron 16-300.

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Apis mellifera, widespread in all continents except the Arctic and Antarctic areas, is the only one known in Europe. Apis dorsata resides in particular in India and South-East Asia, it is not a domestic species, it has the peculiarity of building the open honeycomb and is of considerable size, so much so as to deserve the name of giant bee of India. In the same areas Apis cerana proliferates, but of smaller dimensions, which has its habitat in the Middle and Far East, in particular in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Siberia, China and Japan.
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Bees and honey in Vietnam – Abeilles et miel au Vietnam – Abejas y miel en Vietnam – Abelhas e mel no Vietnã – Bienen und Honig in Vietnam – Ong và mật ong ở Việt Nam

4 January 201920 July 2024

Un Ape turistico a Spalato

Un Ape turistico a Spalato.
Ormai in tutte le citta’ si trovano i classici bus Hop-On rossi (ma ormai ci sono di tutti i colori).
Qualche mese fa ero a Spalato (Split) e ho trovato questo bello ed eccentrico mezzo per fare un giro turistico.
Fa venire proprio voglia di fare un giro!
Un bell’Ape Piaggio trasformato in tuk tuk.

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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Tamron 16-300.

Click here per vedere tutte le foto della citta’ che ho scattato.

Dove si trova la citta’:

Spalato (Spàlato; in croato Split; in dalmatico Spalatro; in greco antico Ασπάλαθος, Aspálathos) è una città della Croazia, capoluogo della regione spalatino-dalmata, principale centro della Dalmazia e, con i suoi 178.192 abitanti (2011), seconda città del Paese. Spalato è anche sede universitaria e arcivescovile. Il nome della città deriva dalla ginestra spinosa, arbusto molto comune nella regione, che in greco antico era denominato Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος). Sotto l’Impero romano la città si chiamò “Spalatum” e nel Medioevo “Spalatro” in lingua dalmatica. In lingua croata viene denominata “Split” mentre in italiano “Spalato”. Nei primi anni del XIX secolo il nome divenne “Spljet” per poi tornare di nuovo alla forma “Split”.
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A tourist Ape in Split – Un singe touristique à Split – Un mono turístico en Split – Um macaco turístico em Split – Ein Touristenaffe in Split – Một con khỉ du lịch ở Split

15 February 201423 March 2025

A bumblebee on the rosemary flower

A bumblebee on a rosemary flower.
A beautiful bumblebee, perhaps out of season because when I took the photo it was December, looking for some nectar from some little rosemary flowers on one of the towers of Riomaggiore.
A beautiful macro, I think, for all of you!

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Like bees, bumblebees collect nectar and pollen for nutrition. They are among the most important and useful pollinating insects for the ecosystem. Generally larger than common bees, bumblebees are characterized by a yellow and black livery, with bands of varying width depending on the species; there are species that are all black or with orange bands.
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