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