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Common carder bee foraging on a knautia.

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SLEA build, day 3...

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always open (March thru July) always changing :)

I like the purple pollen from the poppy on the back of the bumblebee.

The bee is being caressed by the flower.

I think this is a Meadow Brown, but not being a flutter-biologist, I could be very wrong.

Brown-belted Bumble Bee [Bombus griseocollis]

Peace Valley Park

Doylestown, PA

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Bumblebee Pollinating

La pollinisation est au cœur de la nature et de ses processus de reproduction.

Pollination is at the heart of nature and its reproductive processes.

A bee hard at work on some Speedwell flowers.

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(315/365) There were still a few flies enjoying the sunshine & the Ivy flowers in my local lane today. Lovely to see them so late in the year. Happy Wing Wednesday & HFDF!

A yellow swallowtail, enjoying some summer food.

Hummingbird Moth

Happy Fly Day Friday have a great day folks. ;0)

From our garden.

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People mindlessly hate wasps because of their sting, but they do have an important role in the environment.

In the Wallace Garden at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales.

Type of Bee

the flower´s name, ixia, comes from the Greek..meaning bird lime...a reference to it´s sweet sap..a favorite of pollinators

The arrival of spring in some mountain and high latitude areas is marked by the appearance of Pasque flowers (genus Pulsatilla, buttercup family). Their name is derived from the Hebrew word for Passover, and other common names reference the spring holiday when they appear (Easter flower) or their habitat (Prairie crocus).

This is Pulsatilla patens in a Ponderosa pine savanna at 7500 feet/ 2460 m. The species is distributed widely across the northern hemisphere, throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. I'm not sure what the pollinator is on the stamen and stigma, possibly an Andrena bee.

A significant cold front is due to arrive for Easter which will probably bury these flowers in snow for a few days, but the flowers will close up, and will likely survive and reappear later in the week.

Thanks to Jeff Mitton for sharing the location of this population.

Pollinating

Thuya Garden. Mid-afternoon - bright sunlight and intermmittent gusty winds.

I agree that constraints help spur creativity. Today I ended up playing with a bunch of different subjects but came back to work on my bees. Again working close up with the 36mm extension tube on my 100mm macro lens. There was a bit of sunlight I was able to coax onto this large pumpkin blossom. The bees in this blossom were in like a drunken stupor and didn't move like the others I encountered. They were less inclined to move much which made it easier to work. I love the hairy details of the blossom and the balls of pollen on the bees legs.

Thanks for visiting, hope you aren't getting bored or grossed out by all of the bees. I'm a big fan of bees but not wasps, yellow jackets, earwigs, spiders, flies, or mice. Oh, and update on the mice, we did catch one in a trap. Feeling a bit better about life but just wish all the pests would stay outside and I wouldn't have to be bothered with them.

A tighter crop on a bee working the bulbines today than the previous shot. Maybe the same individual, maybe not. Same technique--focus, wait, fire a burst of shots when a bee showed up. 33mm extension tube.

Sony A7 + Leitz Colorplan 90mm f2.5

This is an extreme crop, please excuse the quality.