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workers greedily licking up salts and may be other substances as well from the remnants of a barbecue-fire
Torso of a statue of the Bull God Apis. From Memphis (purchased in Rome by Francesco Piranesi in 1779), possibly found in Hadian's Villa in Tivoli.
Ptolelmaic Period, 3rd-2nd century BC.
Vatican Museum, Rome
The first insect I have been able to snap this year, a solitary honey bee resting between the snowdrops at Waldershare.
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Native wild honeybees are no longer believed to live in the UK. However some managed bees do escape and become feral.
Honeybees are social bees that live in permanent colonies of perhaps 50,000. Feral colonies like to nest in hollow trees or similar sheltered situations. The hive structure consists of wax 'honeycombs'; each honeycomb is made of small cells, which are used to store food or to rear the brood. Bees feed on nectar and pollen taken from flowers. Stores of honey (regurgitated nectar) and pollen (gathered on the legs in special 'pollen baskets') see them through the winter and enable them to stay together as a colony.
Apis dorsata (Apidae). Mount Tabon, Mount Kanlaon National Park, Negros Occidental Philippines. 7 July 2012.
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Apis bee gathering pollen.
Finalmente uma foto de uma obreira da cada vez menos comum Apis mellifera (Apidae). Foi fotografada num habitat dunar a alimentar-se nas flores de Cardo-marÃtimo (Eryngium maritimum).