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Purple Prickly Pear Pollinator

Purple Prickly Pear Pollinator

A bee paused on the edge of this purple prickly pear flower to clean some pollen off of itself.

A bee paused on the edge of this purple prickly pear flower to clean some pollen off of itself.
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Canon EOS 70D

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Aperture f/0 ISO 1000 Shutter 1/2500 sec. Focal Length 250/1

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Jul, 2015

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