During a trip to the north coast of California to see the Redwoods National Park, Rick and his wife spent some time enjoying the blackberries. For a couple of hours, they turned into grazers and kept finding one good patch after another. The blackberry bushes had ripe fruit, but were also flowering. This honey bee was busily flitting from one flower to another. Rick had to use a fast shutter speed and multiple shots to get one where the bee had settled onto a flower and the wings were still. The honey bee isn't native to North America, but was brought from Europe and has spread across the entire continent. But something is threatening these highly important pollinators with a condition called Colony Collapse Disorder. Losing the pollination services of bees would be a huge disaster for us humans.
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