Atomic Shrimp | Slow TV – Bee Roll (*Other Pollinators Available) @AtomicShrimp | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Join me for a few moments closely watching the bees and other flying insects feeding on, and pollinating the flowers.
Slow TV isn't for everyone, and that's OK - as a slight departure from the usual format, I have added music to this video - partly because the insects are recorded in 2x slow motion (it's hard to see what's really going on at normal speed) and partly because when I recorded this, there are builders working on my house, so the recorded background sound would have been saws and drills and hammering.
The music is Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 - III. Adagio - public domain music from musopen.org
About the plants you see in this video; these are a mixture of native wild flowers and some of the cultivated forms of other native wild flowers; chiefly:
Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica - the plant with spires of dark magenta flowers
Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea - the tall plant with clusters of tubular flowers that the bees must crawl inside - we have various different shades of flowers but they are all the same species
Toadflax - Linaria purpurea - the plant with densely-packed spires of pale pink 'snapdragon' flowers. The wild form of this plant is a beautiful deep purple colour, but we have the pink cultivar
Cranesbill - Geranium sp - the bushy plant with purple, saucer-shaped flowers.
Mountain Bluet - Centaurea montana - the low-growing plant with blue and magenta thistle-like flowers
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Join me for a few moments closely watching the bees and other flying insects feeding on, and pollinating the flowers.
Slow TV isn't for everyone, and that's OK - as a slight departure from the usual format, I have added music to this video - partly because the insects are recorded in 2x slow motion (it's hard to see what's really going on at normal speed) and partly because when I recorded this, there are builders working on my house, so the recorded background sound would have been saws and drills and hammering.
The music is Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 - III. Adagio - public domain music from musopen.org
About the plants you see in this video; these are a mixture of native wild flowers and some of the cultivated forms of other native wild flowers; chiefly:
Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica - the plant with spires of dark magenta flowers
Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea - the tall plant with clusters of tubular flowers that the bees must crawl inside - we have various different shades of flowers but they are all the same species
Toadflax - Linaria purpurea - the plant with densely-packed spires of pale pink 'snapdragon' flowers. The wild form of this plant is a beautiful deep purple colour, but we have the pink cultivar
Cranesbill - Geranium sp - the bushy plant with purple, saucer-shaped flowers.
Mountain Bluet - Centaurea montana - the low-growing plant with blue and magenta thistle-like flowers
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