The Worm Moon sets behind the Monument of the Salamis Fighters, also known as Salaminomachoi, on Tuesday on Salamina island, Greece, honoring the ancient Greeks who died in the naval Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) |
Photographer Krystle Hickman photographs wild bees as desert sunflowers blanket the valley floor at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, Calif., in February. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) |
A California photographer is on a quest to photograph hundreds of native bees |
In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman crouches over with her specialized camera fitted to capture the minute details of the bee's antennae and fuzzy behind. Of the roughly 4,000 types of bees native to North America, Hickman has photographed over 300. For about 20 of them, she's the first to ever photograph them alive. |
