Shedding off the excess weight

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Honey Bee

Came across this interesting sight of a pollen drenched honey bee taking a time off to shed off the excess pollen off its tail. It seemed as if the bee was uncomfortable flying around with the pollen all over its body. It was shrugging off as much as it could from its back using the hind legs, few of which can be seen dumped onto the leaves

EXIF:
Canon 550D
Canon 100mm macro
F/11
Shutterspeed 1/200
ISO 400
Handheld, External flash fired

Location: Kasarvadavli, Thane

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice behavior captured. Good details. It seems due to so many pollens on it, it is not able to fly. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice one. Shows an interesting role played by the bee in nature. How much of a crop is this? I would like to have some more space to show the habitat more. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Prajwal J Ullal]

I guess it was a very less crop, may be 15% of crop

[Vipin Sharma]

I love this image , nice behavior shown. Such images are very important for education purpose .