Photography and my bees

As you can imagine taking photos of bees is not as easy as taking a photo of an insect like a butterfly, for one thing the butterfly can't sting you.

Both myself and my daughter Louise are interested in photography and as I gave Louise a Nikon D90 for her 21st birthday Louise has taken some truly fantastic photos.

The photos used in this website are a mixture of photos I have taken myself and photos Louise has taken when she joins me at the hive.

Close up shots

I was lucky enough to be the winning bidder on an Endoscope that was a buy it now price of £3,000 or sell to the highest bidder on E-bay, the auction was due to end middle of the night and as I was nightshift I thought I would put a cheeky little bid in as no other bids had been made with just an hour to run.

Well I placed a bid of just £10 and that turned out to be the winning bid - I bet the seller was pissed off that I won the item for £10 and to add insult to injury it was free postage and packaging. 

THE MORAL OF THE STORY "IF YOU DON'T WISH TO PRACTICALLY GIVE AN EXPESIVE ITEM AWAY ON E-BAY - PLACE A RESERVE ON IT.

The endoscope has a 5 meter flexi body from my laptop to the actual camera lense and a fantastic zoom, this enables me to take some amazing close up shots of my bees.

Here you can see a few photos taken with my endoscope and you can make your own mind up on how good the endoscope is.

Two worker bee's working on the honey that's not yet ready to be capped in its cell after the moisture level is below 18%.

A Drone bee after he has dried out once he emerged from his cell.

A Drone bee emerging from his cell in which the queen laid the the egg from which he hatched, a drone bee needs the help from worker bees to help him out his cell.

 Above - A bees eye at X 500 Magnification

Below - A bee's tongue at about X 500 Magnification

 A bees stinger about X 200 magnification

 A bees wing at X500 magnification ( notice the hairs growing from the wing film, these act like velcro securing the bees front and back wings together during the bees flight. A bee has two pairs of wing).