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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.

You can find all the photos taken on this excursion here:

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

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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