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secret bee rituals 4

            E-P5 / Tamron SP 180mm f/3.5 Di Macro LD-IF

Part of a strange ritual a procession of orange tail bees has taken to performing on my native hibiscus.  The bees rotate between the open flowers, land on the stamen, reach up and bite something at the back of the flower, turn around, stick their bottom where they just used their jaws, scrape the sides of the flower with their hind legs, left and right, clean their head, then march to the end of the stamen and fly off.  The bees sometimes meet up and contact each other between the flowers.  

There's no obvious attempt to gather nectar or pollen at any point, and only one bee occupies a flower at a time.  All this while the flower is being completely destroyed by other mating beetles, and a collection of flies just hang around doing not much.

Taken on: November 18, 2016

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