SharonCummingsArt , to random
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Love Bugs!! The GOOD kind. :)

Another piece from my personal journal that started as an ink drawing. I am really enjoying these!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-bugs-colorful-hand-drawn-heart-art-sharon-cummings.html

KarenKasparArt ,
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@SharonCummingsArt love your new series!

Krisss ,
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@KarenKasparArt @SharonCummingsArt I concur! 😊

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Bee on the lilacs with it's tongue out.

A cropped closeup photo of a honey bee on a cluster of lilac blossoms. It has it's tongue out tasting or eating something on a petal, maybe pollen. There many open and unopened flowers. The unopened flowers are a darker color and tubular with a bulbous tip that is divided in 4 equal parts that are the petals that will unfurl soon.
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    Decoding honeybees’ waggle dance:

    “Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance”, by Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb 2024.
    https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3

    Couldn’t be any other way: the bees’ nest is pitch dark!

    albertcardona OP ,
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    The supplemental data has a captivating set of photographs of bees inside the hive, highlighting their head and antennae positions, and documenting trophalaxis (passing food onto each other).

    A number of photos illustrating the relative position and angle of the head and antennae of the bees, and how bees pass on food onto each other (trophalaxis). Figure S1. Point of view (POV) from camera positioned parallel to honeycomb. Related to Figure 1. (A) Examples of general head and antennae positions from around the hive. In such cases, the varying pitch and roll of head and antennae make it difficult to determine the true orientation of their position in a 3D plane. (B) When following dances, nestmates’ antennae are outstretched and they show a stable positioning of head, making it feasible to measure antennal angles from a parallel top-down camera view. D and F indicate dancer and follower bee, respectively. (C) Intermittent cases where determining the angle of antennae is not possible and excluded from the dataset.
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    Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees.
    I'm celebrating the little heroes with my drawing...
    https://theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1695585247

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