Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Lots of opportunities to capture bee flight around the lotus pont.

Coming in for a landing

Blue lotus

White lotus

Bee prospecting

Three bees

Bees harvesting

Two flying bees

Two bees flying

Two flying bees - and one harvesting

Two bees landing

Harvesting

Bee prospecting around a white flower

Harvesting

Prospecting

Its been almost 2 years since I have found a male and female Nephila Here, surprise is a Female Nephila antipodiana - Yu's study topic

And surprise - a male Nephila antipodiana

Male approaching the female

More of the male-female tango

Approach (again)

Male mounting the female

Another view

Male insertion into epigynom

Male insertion

Her web what about 3 meters above the ground - so I was able to stand under her and shoot her face - to - face

Here she is - after

and she managed to have him for dinner (you see the remains of a pair of legs

Content

I had a spay bottle (compliments of Ari) and this interesting pattern appeared

Blue Dasher (on the way back to my room

Frangipani

Another Frangipani

Off to Sea Sport - and Widi

And then back to my room - passing the lotus pond -with bees everywhere

Even harvesting in a white flower

More harvesting

Why all the bees? Because they made their home is a small stone structure adjacent to the pond. So I could get a nice and stable shot of a resting bee

Faceoff with a bee

Bee eating

Ari

New Staff (some what apprehensive

David

Maru

Harnika

Yenny

Yani

Another spa lady

Lina

Santi

Then sunset

And more sunset - from Sun Moon

Early evening - Orion

And the evening rising moon

Later

and even more later

C. Frank Starmer

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