It Caught My Eye: Cactus Flower Bees
Posted By WILL CAMPBELL On August 9, 2008 @ 7:45 am In Nature, Video, Wildlife | Comments Disabled
It’s that time of year again, when the neighbor’s tall cactus busts out with its gorgeous night-blooming flowers, and this morning I was drawn to the activity going on at one of the blossoms as a group of bees tried to frantically score some last-minute pollen before the bloom called “Last call!” and closed up shop for the day. I was just amazed at how the bees just wallowed around in there, gettin’ some.
[1]UPDATE (8:10 a.m.): Well, after dozens of minutes and thousands of braincells wasted trying to get the @#$%&&*!@ YouScrude embed link to go from FAIL to function, there’s a still from the clip above and you can take your pick from the YouTube link [2] and the Quicktime vidlink [3].
PS. You might recall this timelapse [4] I compiled of one of the flower’s last year sloooowly opening across an evening.
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Article printed from Los Angeles Metblogs: http://la.metblogs.com
URL to article: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/08/09/it-caught-my-eye-cactus-flower-bees/
URLs in this post:
[1] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/08/beez-copy.jpg
[2] YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspjzeTGBjw
[3] Quicktime vidlink: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/08/cactusbees.mov
[4] this timelapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY2ANeo74tQ
[5] The LA Bike Tour: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/25/the-la-bike-tour/
[6] Juxtaposing: Pyro-Cumulus With Cumulo-Nimbus: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/09/01/juxtaposing-pyro-cumulus-with-cumulo-nimbus/
[7] It Caught My Eye: Á La Commode: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/04/16/it-caught-my-eye-a-la-commode/
[8] It Caught My Eye: Siht Happens, The Sequel: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/13/it-caught-my-eye-siht-happens-the-sequel/
[9] The Return of the Golden Oaks… or Summer is Here!: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/08/27493/
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