Bees Working Lavender Collection
by Michele Avanti
Title
Bees Working Lavender Collection
Artist
Michele Avanti
Medium
Photograph - Mixed Media
Description
Bees Working Lavender Collection Triptyk by Michele Avanti
The sound of bees buzzing is one of the signatures of the happy spring and summer months. Seeing them with their little heads in flowers and their feet covered in pollen is always a joyous experience for me. Lavender flowers fill the air with a comforting scent, soft and fragrant.
I shot these images in June 2014 in Portland Oregon
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Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently considered as a clade Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.
Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.
Bees have a long proboscis (a complex "tongue") that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have antennae almost universally made up of 13 segments in males and 12 in females, as is typical for the superfamily. Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the smaller of the two; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless.
Tiny bee stingless bee species exist whose workers are less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long.[2] The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, a leafcutter bee whose females can attain a length of 39 mm (1.5"). Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.
The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee. Human management of this species is known as beekeeping or apiculture.
Bees are the favorite meal of Merops apiaster, the bee-eater bird. Other common predators are kingbirds, mockingbirds, beewolves, and dragonflies.
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 39 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, southern Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia is often referred to as lavender, and there is a colour named for the shade of the flowers of this species.
The genus includes annual or short-lived herbaceous perennial plants, and shrub-like perennials, subshrubs or small shrubs.
Leaf shape is diverse across the genus. They are simple in some commonly cultivated species; in others they are pinnately toothed, or pinnate, sometimes multiple pinnate and dissected. In most species the leaves are covered in fine hairs or indumentum, which normally contain the essential oils.
Flowers are borne in whorls, held on spikes rising above the foliage, the spikes being branched in some species. Some species produce colored bracts at the apices. The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species, occasionally blackish purple or yellowish. The calyx is tubular. The corolla is also tubular, usually with five lobes (the upper lip often cleft, and the lower lip has two clefts)
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Gary F Richards
Outstanding Bees Working Lavender Collection composition, lighting, shading, excellent color and artwork! F/L voted
Laurel Adams
Dear Michele, CONGRATULATIONS! 👏🏻👏🏻🥁 GAs CHOICE-CONTEST-THEME AWARD(s):🤩👏🏻👏🏻 CONGRATULATIONS, You are 👏🏻🥁 GAs CHOICE-CONTEST-THEME AWARD MEMBER RECIPIENT 🤩👏🏻 in The ARTIST BUZzz - The ARTIST BUZzz -Meadow Dance of the Artful Bumbles-All Media Contest which featured 73 members, 223 entries and 570 votes! YAY!! So well deserved!..BRAVO!
Gary F Richards
Outstanding bee/floral composition, lighting, shading, lovely color and artwork! F/L voted
Gary F Richards
Outstanding AbuntantZZzz composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L voted for this piece in the contest KTBUZZZ-ABUNDANTZZZ - ALL MEDIA
Laurel Adams
Dear Michele, THANK YOU for gracing the contest with such beauty, for moderating our #4 group thread and for regularly contributing to the contest threads …v…BEST to you!…this is of such BEAUTY and JOY
Laurel Adams
Dear Michele, on this day’s tribute, I am selfishly exploring my favs of your FLOWERS COLLECTION! What is exciting about these are the extra gifts of visitors enjoying them...:-) this makes the child in me smile!
GJ Glorijean
ps Buzz BEE sure to upload to the FAA Host Group: Art 4 Billboards so this work can be FEATURED on the Home Page for Earth Day (a little late, Arbor Day soon). GJ
Michele Avanti replied:
Awesome. I must have missed that group.. will do, thanks so much for the heads up, GJ
GJ Glorijean
Michele Avanti, This is such an important Earth Day Triptych... Thanks for capturizing, digitizing & showcasing these Bees Working... pollinating the lavender, very fragrant... We need aroma vision on here, ah well dab of lav oil will do. LFV GJ glorijean
Michele Avanti replied:
Thank you so much GJ... love those bees and adore lavender... what a great mix!
Petra Koehler Rose
It's a beautiful picture. The colours make it look so lively. Very nice work, Michele.
Michael Mirijan
Congratulations, your art work is featured on the homepage of "PICTURES FOR PRESENT" group!
Lorraine Baum
Awesome presentation! L/F
Michele Avanti replied:
Thank you, Lorraine! I so appreciate you visiting and leaving me a note! Makes my day!
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"