Bees Hornets.
Not true, gardeners love them…
These bees don’t even have stings…
They don’t look much like the bees from outside the tropics, do they? But as said they’re stingless bees, one of three main eusocial types along with honeybees and bumblebees, not wasps. They’re also much smaller and in my experience can be difficult to photograph – ObakeBakaNeko did a good job.
oh! a fantasic shot, indeed!
and i very much appreciate learning about them today.
thanks, @ObakeBakaNeko for the pic and the nature lesson!
i wonder, are they pollenators?
Bees in general get their protein from pollen and so tend to carry some from flower to flower in the process. But yeah, stingless bees are said to be good pollinators. While honeybees dance to point each other to flowers, and bumblebees apparently just find them on their own, stingless bees guide each other to them with scent marks which is a good system when you’re so little that height is as important as direction.
They’re pollinators, gardeners will love them too.
today was a bit rainy. after the rain, the dense, steamy, humid air just sweats all over everything. here, two feral street chickens stand on the back porch, looking out over the lush jungle of my backyard:
that’s the rooster i call Kevin and one of his hens (Theodora, Dark Mistress, a daughter of Apocalypse).
these are some of the many subjects of my photos that become etchings.
expect to see these two in a postcard or book illustration.
they all have a story to tell… (and i’ll be telling them).
Poor penguin has a horribly deformed beak. 
Oh, don’t be fooled by the aesthetics of this elongated nose. The enormous beak is precisely what gives sky penguins the ability and the freedom to fly. The aerodynamics of the large yellow nose allows these magnificent birds to soar over our heads! Go toucan, go. I mean, go sky penguin!!
