Photographer Planned To Take Photos Of Wildflowers, But Ended Up Capturing Beautiful Pictures Of A Pair of Sleepy, Snuggling Bees
There are times when flowers aren't the only subjects to be captured in a beautiful photo. This time, we're going to look at bees.
Joe Neely went out for a stroll with his wife. They brought cameras with them, hoping to take pictures of the wildflowers blooming near their Arizona residence.
However, the couple ended up spotting something more beautiful than the flowers they planned to capture. They stopped by an orchard of globe mallow flowers and discovered that they weren't the only ones there.
In every bloom, you would usually spot bees diligently collecting nectar. But that's not what the couple witnessed this time. After a hard day's work, it seemed that the bees were already tired.
Neely said:
We joked that they looked pollen-drunk as they stumbled about.
Eventually, every flower they saw had an immobile resident. The bees were asleep.
What happened next was just the sweetest thing in that moment.
As the sun went down and it was getting dark, one last bee had yet to find a flower to sleep in.
Then, he crawled into one, with the other bee making room for him. Afterwards, the sleepy bees cuddled as they shared a room in a single flower.
It was just adorable.
Neely silently took photos of the snuggling bees before heading home to let the pale-eyed insects sleep tight.
Then, he posted the pictures on social media, which garnered lots of likes.
Following the event, Neely learned that the insects he and his wife encountered were called globe mallow bees, named after the orange-colored flowers. Although some of them diligently retire to their hives at nightfall, others frequently sleep in their beloved flowers.
As seen in Neely's photos, they sometimes share a flower with their fellow bees.
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