Another photo from the meadow, when we had such a lovely summer. Hours of fun spent crawling around on hands and knees, capturing bees going about their business!

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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Albert Einstein

For Smile on Saturday - Bee-autiful

Art - Black and White with texture, from photo

Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. The organisms, each termed a symbiont, must be of different species. Wikipedia

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Using a close-focus wide-angle lens, I was nearly touching the bee when I snagged this frame. Luckily, it was one of the big docile bumble bees who was happy to let me spy on them.

The fish-eye lens makes it feel like we were standing back from the flower, but if this were a normal lens, it would be obvious this is a macro shot.

Sigma 15mm f/2.8 @ f/11

The Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera). The Selsley Common, Gloucestershire, England, U.K.

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A very busy honey bee on a cone flower taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

Hope you like listening to Bobby McFerrin singing "Don't Worry Be Happy"

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HMBT

Bee at work

Bee

Rosendahl-Darfeld, Germany

a white fronted bee eater (merops albicollis).

this kind of bee eater con be found in south africa all the year around.it's a lovely bird and in some areas quite common.

in photography the hardest part is in this case to get the details of the white front.the whites are very easy to be "fired" especially in canon.take care on exposure!

south luangwa, Zambia

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Male passing a bee to the female. Taken in Spain

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A shot taken for Looking close...on Friday.

colourful bee macro with a non macro lens

busy bee

Friendly bee

Bee.

For Smile on Saturday#Bee-autiful!

Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!

HSoS!

Bumble Bee,doing what it has to do to get the Pollen.

A bee dismembered by a hornet The head part stayed alive for at least 20 minutes

Honey bees in action among white poppies

Sunflowers and a Bumble Bee feeding.

Because the Bee may blameless hum

For Thee a Bee do I become

List even unto Me.

[E. Dickinson]

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wmihail, thank you for this title.

Bee photos, these are becoming increasingly hard to get, especially here in Essex. Many of the gardens I visit have had a real decrease in numbers. On my walks into the countryside Buddleja, Thistle and other wild flowers there is hardly anything. Is there a cure?

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Bumble Bee () collecting pollen and nectar from flowers along the valley of the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

This is another of at least three varieties of Bumble bees on the flowers in the area.

22 August, 2017.

Slide # GWB_20170822_5653.CR2

Taken Olhao, Portugal

Bumble Bee seen near the garden (1631)

This bee was busy in the flower and fell out on his back in his hurry. Thanks for looking and happy weekend!

youtu.be/bNR5N4KD780?si=RZhK-HptaPfN-Xu6 Bee & Peruvian lily flower

Or at least I think they are bees!