Saturday, January 16

Today Rupert, Small, Ping and I went outside for a bit ...

... while Small found a sunny spot for bone-warming purposes and Ping dived into the Hydrangeas for skink-hunting purposes, I examined the tomato crop. Which is doing well, even if not much actual ripening is going on. There's a lot of flowers too.
Now, I don't know if you know but some Australian tomato farmers want to import Bumble Bees because they are buzz pollinators. Tomatoes LOVE buzz pollinators (this is not a good idea, cute though they are). Australian natives, Blue Banded Bees, are buzz pollinators.
Swooping in for the buzz.
Proboscis out!
BUZZZZZ - yes, you hear it, short, sharp, to the point and they are away off to the next flower.
If not for some accidentally perfect manual focus work (twiddle, twiddle), and Rupert's sport mode shooting doodad, I'd never have caught these shots.
Worth EVERY penny, is Rupert.

7 comments:

Pink Granite said...

WOW!!!
Amazing photos!!!

S said...

Oh me oh my! YOU are very clever. *and i am a bit pleased that you have moved from spiders to bees.

cookiecrumb said...

Oh, Rupert. I swoon.

Zoomie said...

Stunning. And, you're right, go with the local bees.

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Lee, thanks, a complete fluke but I'll take the credit.
S - pish posh, more spiders to come.
Cookie, he's quite the dandy :)
Zoomie, we go local where we can, I'm dying to see another local, the teddy bear bee!

Roo said...

OOOOOOOOh beees!I think I should name my old camera and then call the new one "Son of"....

Suggestions please ;o)

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Roo, hmmmm, Clive? Augustine? Clive I think, cos son of Clive sounds kind of cool.