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Offline Perry

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Died with his shoes on?
« on: October 27, 2014, 08:47:38 pm »
A photographer brought this picture to the farmers market for me. He said he watched this one large bee struggling to fly from flower to flower for about 20 minutes, carrying this other bee. Is this a case of the feller literally being dead weight?  :-\


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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2014, 05:28:47 pm »
Soo interesting, I could put some good stories to this pic  ;)
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2014, 05:43:10 pm »
Looks like queen & drone
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2014, 06:29:53 pm »
The bee on the bottom is a bumble bee, and what looks like a honey bee on it's back ~
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2014, 06:39:02 pm »
No, the one on top isn't a honeybee.  Too fluffy, its wings aren't long enough, and it's abdomen isn't right.  Maybe male and female bumblebee mating?
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2014, 07:20:33 pm »
Okay! I see it now! Good call Led  ;)
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2014, 08:06:05 pm »
The fact that the male seems to have died would be cause for the female to be struggling to fly from flower to flower. I assume the males should break off and die like honey bees?
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2014, 08:21:36 pm »
very interesting photograph perry!

i think led may be on track here about mating......

these are bumbles, they sure look a lot like whitetailed bumbles or western bumbles....?
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Re: Died with his shoes on?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2014, 08:39:50 pm »
kinky?
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