Apr 23, 2010
It's amazing what a little Photoshopping can do to a bee on blue.
We captured an image this week of a pollen-packing honey bee on Phacelia campanularia, also known as California blue bells or desert blue bells.
It's a deep inky-blue wildflower that's native to southwestern deserts of California. It's planted in a wildflower patch behind the Sciences Laboratory Building on the UC Davis campus. There it mingles with the white-petalled yellow tidy tips and other wildflowers.
We ran the image through "poster edges" of Photoshop and voila! It's even more inky blue.
Maybe that's what the bee sees.
Attached Images:
![A POLLEN-PACKING honey bee heads for California blue bells (Phacelia campanularia) on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) A POLLEN-PACKING honey bee heads for California blue bells (Phacelia campanularia) on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/blogfiles/3649.jpg)
Bee on Blue
![POSTER CHILD--This is what the photo looks like when it's Photoshopped with the POSTER CHILD--This is what the photo looks like when it's Photoshopped with the](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/blogfiles/3650.jpg)
Poster Child