Sleeping Bees On A Flower

This photo is just way too cute! Nature photographer Joe Neely captured an adorable photo of two bees napping in a flower. The two bees are snuggled together in the center of an orange flower - the image is just too good to be true! Neely stumbled upon the slumbering bees when he and his wife went out in search of Mexican poppy wildflowers:  

Neely and his wife watched more bees climb into the flowers. “Soon after,” he recalls, “all the flowers on the plant had a motionless occupant in them. They were going to sleep. I've never seen this behavior before. Then as sunset grew darker, one last bee was trying hard to find his own flower but they were all taken so he crawled into petals with this other bee who shifted a little to give him room.”
Realizing that he had the perfect shot, Neely quickly got out his macro photography equipment and snapped a few pictures. “Their blue eyes and the orange flowers contrasted beautifully. It wasn't until we got home that we learned more about them and their unique behavior of sleeping in globe mallow blooms.” Some bees retire to their hives each night, but this species is often found sleeping in the flower that bears their name. And as Neely shows, sometimes it's with a buddy.

Image credit: Joe Neely


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