This is a
Western or European Honey Bee* from a hive belonging to my beekeeper friends Glenn and Jess of
The Beneficial Bee.
"Bee Farmer"
This particular Apis mellifera is dressed as a farmer sitting on her green John Deer.
*Western or European Honey Bee: is our number 1 pollinator, because the bee can be domesticated and transported all over the country to pollinate crops that would otherwise go unharvested. We owe every third bite of food to the bees! The average life span of the honey bee is only about 28 to 35 days. Honey bees are in danger because of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) which will compromise our food supply.
This is what Jess said on her blog about her hubby: "I decided to dress up one of our bees for my friend Doris’s pet costume contest. Did Glenn roll his eyes at my picture of a bee on a tiny John Deere? No. He enhanced the photo with the most amazing bee-sized boots and hat."
And that, ladies and gents, is a wrap! I think I've seen it all!
*Western or European Honey Bee: is our number 1 pollinator, because the bee can be domesticated and transported all over the country to pollinate crops that would otherwise go unharvested. We owe every third bite of food to the bees! The average life span of the honey bee is only about 28 to 35 days. Honey bees are in danger because of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) which will compromise our food supply.
This is what Jess said on her blog about her hubby: "I decided to dress up one of our bees for my friend Doris’s pet costume contest. Did Glenn roll his eyes at my picture of a bee on a tiny John Deere? No. He enhanced the photo with the most amazing bee-sized boots and hat."
And that, ladies and gents, is a wrap! I think I've seen it all!
5 comments:
Your blog will be BUZZING about this contestant for a long time! I BEElieve I've seen it all, too, HONEY!
Good Morning! Dear Daughter and I picked a little something up for our cocker spaniel so that he could play along! So I will try to get a photo to you by tonight. I would like to get my cat in there too, but even with as good natured as he is, I doubt I'll be able to get anything more than an orange bow around his neck... If he'll let me do that! (0; Our other cat is not exactly a social butterfly about things like this, so we will just let her sit this one out! ~tina
Cuuuuuuuuuute! Have you ever seen anything CUTER? Seriously!
That is absolutely too cool!
I am just laughing at this entry.. its just too clever for words....
M
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