Scymnus
All righty! Photographing bees on the Phystostegia correllii is exceptionally hard work. Course, photographing the wild bees is hard anyway, because they are so busy. Yes. They are busy, nervous and fast. They hardly ever sit still unless they fall asleep.
Like one time Crumby saw this little bee go into a Phystostegia blossom. Then Crumby was waiting fairly patiently for the bee to come out. But it didn’t come out. Crumby waited some more. It didn’t come out. Crumby ran out of patience.
What’s that dang bee doing in there? Crumby peeked in the blossom. There was the little bee settled in, fast asleep.
This is just an example of the hard work Crumby alluded to above. Crumby figures the best opportunity to get a shot of a bee is when it is entering or exiting the blossom orifice. However, maybe not. At any rate, the bees do sometimes go in, then stay way too long, outlasting Crumby’s limited patience.
Or, you may know that some bees, like the large carpenter bees, chew holes at the base of the blossoms. This sucks for two reason. First, the blossoms don’t get pollinated. And second, the really little pollinator bees that go in by the front door may easily slip out the back door or chewed out carpenter bee hole, thus evading Crumby's camera.
That’s right. Crumby is waiting patiently for the bee to come back out. Meantime, the dern bee has hooked it out the back way. How aggravating is that?
All of which is to say, Crumby is not ready with his major project, The Bees that get on Physostegia correllii. Plus, there is another Physostegia that grows near the CB. Crumby fells like it may be Physostegia pulchella. But its sort of in a garden so there is no telling what Physostegia it may actually be. Could be anything. Nobody knows for sure. But Crumby has included some information on that Physostegia too in the upcoming The Bees that get on Physostegia correllii, particularly because casual observation indicates the possibly unknown Physostegia draws lots of honey bees which also chew holes in the bases of the blossoms. Weird!
Anyhow, none of that is ready. Alternatively, Scymnus larvae remind Crumby of those little mop like dogs. Here is an example. If you look carefully, you may espy the head of an aphid sticking out from, Crumby hopes, the anterior end of the Scymnus larvae. Scymnus larvae eat aphids. Uh. Or they sit on them.
Presumably, this is an adult Scymnus. The Scymnus are tiny lady bug beetles. This adult is under 2mm. During the nanosecond of time or space this picture represents, this particular Scymnus was lost in lust. Yes. This behavior is part and parcel of the fornication ritual or an example of Coleopteran sexual frenzy. Or, this beetle may be fixing to fly away.
Like one time Crumby saw this little bee go into a Phystostegia blossom. Then Crumby was waiting fairly patiently for the bee to come out. But it didn’t come out. Crumby waited some more. It didn’t come out. Crumby ran out of patience.
What’s that dang bee doing in there? Crumby peeked in the blossom. There was the little bee settled in, fast asleep.
This is just an example of the hard work Crumby alluded to above. Crumby figures the best opportunity to get a shot of a bee is when it is entering or exiting the blossom orifice. However, maybe not. At any rate, the bees do sometimes go in, then stay way too long, outlasting Crumby’s limited patience.
Or, you may know that some bees, like the large carpenter bees, chew holes at the base of the blossoms. This sucks for two reason. First, the blossoms don’t get pollinated. And second, the really little pollinator bees that go in by the front door may easily slip out the back door or chewed out carpenter bee hole, thus evading Crumby's camera.
That’s right. Crumby is waiting patiently for the bee to come back out. Meantime, the dern bee has hooked it out the back way. How aggravating is that?
All of which is to say, Crumby is not ready with his major project, The Bees that get on Physostegia correllii. Plus, there is another Physostegia that grows near the CB. Crumby fells like it may be Physostegia pulchella. But its sort of in a garden so there is no telling what Physostegia it may actually be. Could be anything. Nobody knows for sure. But Crumby has included some information on that Physostegia too in the upcoming The Bees that get on Physostegia correllii, particularly because casual observation indicates the possibly unknown Physostegia draws lots of honey bees which also chew holes in the bases of the blossoms. Weird!
Anyhow, none of that is ready. Alternatively, Scymnus larvae remind Crumby of those little mop like dogs. Here is an example. If you look carefully, you may espy the head of an aphid sticking out from, Crumby hopes, the anterior end of the Scymnus larvae. Scymnus larvae eat aphids. Uh. Or they sit on them. 
Presumably, this is an adult Scymnus. The Scymnus are tiny lady bug beetles. This adult is under 2mm. During the nanosecond of time or space this picture represents, this particular Scymnus was lost in lust. Yes. This behavior is part and parcel of the fornication ritual or an example of Coleopteran sexual frenzy. Or, this beetle may be fixing to fly away.
posted by ray pistrum at Saturday, July 31, 2010
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