While in the garden with the Olympus point & shoot last Saturday evening, I attempted some shots of bumblebees, at work on Robbin’s Cosmos, with its telephoto in a breeze. Most photographers know better.
Last evening on the deck with gin & tonics to assuage the 110° day, I brought the macro lens out. As we were talking, a bumblebee crashed into the back of Robbin’s head and landed on the table, seemingly overcome with heat,
only to come back to life and head for my glass.
Whether for the condensation or the coolness of the glass, or both, it was determined. With fading light, photographers understand my lack of depth of field, and the flash
that didn’t deter him a bit. After 15 or 20 minutes, I went back out to the Cosmos.
He was still busy on the glass when I returned.
Whether moisture or coolness, Robbin decided to let him have an ice cube from her glass.
Whereupon he spent another five minutes or so, until he had his fill, then stumbled off and collapsed. We thought we’d killed him.
But alas, he rallied, crawled across the table, fell off the edge onto our 2” x 6” deck, then crawled off between a crack—much better, we assume, for the experience.
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The moisture on the glass and the ice cube were like CPR! You saved a life!
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I think we did Angeline.
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Gin on the ice cube may have given him a little “buzz”
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That concerned us, Richard, but so diluted even for a small bumblebee, I suspect he OD-ed on too much cold liquid, a shock to his dehydrated system. Who knows, but he survived and we were entertained, learning a little along the way.
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Good entertainment on a hot day – I enjoy your pictures.
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Thanks Virginia, I knew you’d understand… anything to take your mind off the obvious 🙂 Plus spend a little time with a warm bumblebee. Sometimes it’s even too hot for Mother Nature.
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