Weekly Photos 2: Black & White Nokiagraphy - My Smartphone Photography

Good day to all my fellow Stemians!!!

Time for my next Nokiagraphy. I hope you'll enjoy seeing them.

Bee trivia.

Bees:

• can fly around 15 mph
• can fly 55,000 miles to bring us 1 pound of honey
• can their wings 11,400 per minute
• must go to two million flowers to gather l pound of honey
• can see the same colors we see except red. They can also see ultraviolet

During her life (approximately 40 days) a honey bee will gather about 1/12 teaspoon of honey.

Honey bees that collect nectar from flowers are called foragers and visit 50-100 flowers on one flight.

The bees gather 10 pounds of nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

A foraging honey bee can carry 80% of their weight in pollen or nectar.

Honey bees make up 80% of all pollinators.

Honey bees use several dances in the hive to communicate the location of nectar and water to other bees. One well known dance is called the waggle dance.

Honey bee pollination has a agricultural value of 15 billion dollars a year in the US.

The queen honey bee lays between 1,000-3,000 eggs per day.

There is only 1 queen per colony. More than one queen will fight and only one will survive.

A queen mates with nearly 20 drones and only mates once in her life time.

The drone (the male honey bee) does not have a stinger.

Bees wax begins to melt at 148 degrees.

Bees wax is produced from the wax glands in honey bees.

A honey bee lives approximately 40 days in the summer and 4-9 months in the winter. source

Butterfly trivia.

• Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
• Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
• Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
• The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour.
• Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about
• 2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring.
• Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
• Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
• Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
• There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about
• 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
• The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months. source

Water Hyacinth

• The Water Hyacinth is considered to be one of the worst aquatic plants in the world
• The Water Hyacinth is the only large aquatic herb that can float on the water without being attached to the bottom
• What allows the Water Hyacinth to float on water are air bubbles trapped by the roots and air spaces in the leaf stalks
• The Water Hyacinth is commonly called the fastest growing plant in the world
• The mats that the Water Hyacinth creates can grow up to 6 feet (2 meters) thick. source

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• Nokiagraphy (My Smartphone Photography Using Nokia Phones)
• My Nokiagraphy 2
• Nokiagraphy 3 - Snapped by Lumia 1020 (41MP) released in 2013