Apparently There’s A Bee Species That Sleep In Flowers And It’s As Endearing As It Sounds
May 07, 2020 by apost team
Photographer Joe Neely recently captured two bees sleeping in a flower, and it’s definitely not something you see every day. The bees belong to the species Diadasia diminuta and they sleep inside globe mallow flowers.
Photographer Joe Neely recently captured two bees sleeping in a flower, and they have never looked cuter. The bees belong to the species Diadasia diminuta and they sleep inside globe mallow flowers.
In an interview with Bored Panda, Joe explained that he and his fiancée Niccole went out to find some poppy flowers. A patch of pink flowers just off the highway captured their attention, so they stopped to take some photos of those as well. Among the pink flowers, there was a hidden orange globe mallow plant. Joe shares that it was Niccole who heard the bees buzzing, but then she noticed that some flowers had bees inside – but they weren’t moving.
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“I came over and study it for a while and more bees showed up. Soon, all the vacant flowers were occupied and this one bee was left out. She crawled over to this open flower and got inside with the other one. I was watching as he stumbled around almost drunk-like and then got settled in.”
When it comes to bees sleeping, there are a few interesting details. “They don’t have eyelids, so you can’t just look for bees with their eyes closed,” Brandon Hopkins, a bee researcher at Washington State University, said.
An article on University Communications Network explains that bees don’t have eyelids, so you won’t figure out that they’re sleeping by their eyes being closed. Instead, honey bees stop moving their antennae and in some cases fall over sideways, according to the article.
Joe was lucky to be on the spot and study their behavior, as well as capture it in these wonderful images. They look like fairies covered in their own magical dust.
What do you think of these pictures of bees taking a nap from working in flowers? Let us know in the comments and be sure to show this your friends and family to brighten up their day.