Enjoy these photos from our readers’ close-up moments with nature!
Bees
A Bee’s Life
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Honeycomb with worker bees caring for larvae. Photo © Inventori|iStockphoto.com. On a warm day in June, a queen bee was busy laying eggs. One of these...
An Orchid Trick and Fake Antennae
Wouldn’t you like to see a bumblebee flying around with an extra pair of antennae?
Creation Close-ups, April 2026
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Elton Loewen. Great Blue Heron. Photo © Jane Flournoy Black-crowned Night Heron. Photo. © Janelle Sykora. Honeybee. Photo ©...
Plastic Bag Bees
Those bees make plastic bags!?! I’m going to have to see that for myself!
Busy Bees Quiz
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Jessica Sanderson. Approximately how many days does it take for a worker bee to mature from egg to adult?a. 29 daysb. 24 daysc. 21 days If a larva...
Focus Illustrated, December 2025
Readers’ photos illustrating the September 2025 Photo Focus lesson.
Let’s Take a Hike ~ Summer
Come along with me on a summer outing. We’ll drive up to our mountain forest and pasture land…
Favorite Focus, May 2025
View our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Fool Me Once, Lady’s Slipper…
“Fool me once…BZZZZZZZ!” Bumblebee buzzed angrily as she whizzed past. As she bumbled on through the bracken fern and around the blueberry bushes, I think I heard her mumbling, “Why does everything have to have hardly any nectar and pollen?…”
Mailbox, May 2025
Moon rays… Venus phases… night-flying bees… Read the May letters to the editor.
Creation Close-ups, May 2025
Readers’ photo submissions from the May issue.
Bog Slog, Part 1
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive “Let’s go on a bog slog! We’ll get to see carnivorous plants and bee-tricking bog orchids!” Friends and family often hear me say that during early June....
Covers, October 2023
A Peek Into an Apiary
I stared at the thermometer. “Eighty degrees. That’s a little warm to be in the sun, don’t you think?” I asked Mom.“It’s perfect weather to check the bees,” Mom assured me as she filled her bucket...