Bee with Plum pollen(photo)

[keith pierce]

View attachment 9921My bees working the plum tree yesterday

 

[MMJ100]

Great photo !

My bees are doing the same on my plum tree here

good luck

 

[beeno]

Hi Keith,
Many thanks, another stunning photo! Since you are the man, could you please tell me the colour of blackthorn pollen.

 

[beenovice]

Keith, stunning photo. Do you use any specialist gear for the photos? Macro lenses etc?

 

[Tom Bick]

I think it would be great if we can compose a library of pollen with similar photos.

 

[beeno]

I think it would be great if we can compose a library of pollen with similar photos.

It would be wonderful, but we are reliant on the generosity of but a few master photographers

 

[suewebster]

Hi Keith,
Many thanks, another stunning photo! Since you are the man, could you please tell me the colour of blackthorn pollen.

I have the BBKA guide to pollen colours and Blackthorn looks to be a chocolate brown colour

 

[Minxpinx]

Lovely picture, so good to see.
If blackthorn is brown, then I can see that my bees have found some!

 

[keith pierce]

Keith, stunning photo. Do you use any specialist gear for the photos? Macro lenses etc?

I have mentioned this before, but where do you stop. It would need to be confined to plants of northern Europe and then broken up into colour and months of the year.

 

[nickd]

Just goes to show how spring arrives at a different rate depending on location. Here in mid- Wales my bees are sited under a plum tree and it is at least a week away from blossom appearing. We are pretty high up here as well.

 

[enrico]

I'm with you nickd at least a week if not two away!

 

[alldigging]

Not fantastic photos but these pics from last august are of bees on globe artichokes.

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=622

 

[Erichalfbee]

I think it would be great if we can compose a library of pollen with similar photos.

Good idea. I have a few. Am at farmers market at present so will look later

 

[beeno]

I have the BBKA guide to pollen colours and Blackthorn looks to be a chocolate brown colour

Hi Sue,
Thanks - I have had a few of those, but thought it was Cherry Plum. I am surrounded by Blackthorn, so I would have expected a lot more of that colour then. Hey hoo, I guess human logic does not come into it!

 

[Tom Bick]

Good idea. I have a few. Am at farmers market at present so will look later

Yes I have managed a few with my phone not as good as the ones generally posted but ok and could always be replaced.

 

[Les]

Only two flowers out on my Victoria plum tree at the moment - no flowers out yet on the cooking plum or on the green gage.

 

[beenovice]

Green gage, golden gage and damson in full bloom here in the midlands.

 

[rachann]

Keith, stunning photo. Do you use any specialist gear for the photos? Macro lenses etc?

Hi, it it showing as been taken with a canon compact. Which just proves you do not need to spend lots of money to take great photos.

More to do with the photographer rather than the camera.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes I have managed a few with my phone not as good as the ones generally posted but ok and could always be replaced.

Start a thread....call it pollen or some such and we can all add our pictures and perhaps it can be made a sticky

 

[benaghbees]

Great photo! How do you get it imported into your thread like that? I could not seem to do it and had to set up an external link. I am missing something simple?