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

Busy at work in the Urquhart Butterfly Garden in Dundas, Ontario

We have had a really hot dry summer this year and a lot of my plants have suffered but my geraniums have flowered their little socks off and the Bees have loved it.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

~ Ray Bradbury

Caught in a sudden heavy rain storm, these bee's will grip on to flower or leaf with their powerful jaws till long after the danger has past!

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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Bee at work

Bee

colourful bee macro with a non macro lens

I think I got that the right way round! Anyway a Bee that pretends to be a wasp.

The Bee working hard in the sunshine. Seen in Bronte Creek Provincial Park, Oakvile, Ontario.

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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Reverse lens Macro shot of Bee on Flower

Male passing a bee to the female. Taken in Spain

"Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be Kind. Always." -Brad Meltzer-

Bee - Judders garden.

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Bee. Photographed in Maryland.

A focus stack of 3 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set to 1/16th power.

Merops Ornatus

male with a Tau Emerald dragonfly he captured

Chocolate Mining Bee (I think..) on a flower at Lister Park Bradford

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

North Norfolk

Smile on Saturday - Bee-autiful

A Honey Bee on the Grosso Lavender. :-)

Honey Bee

Taking a brief rest on a leaf on our Hibiscus tree.

Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday!

A bee checking out the wildflowers in Shenandoah National Park.

Bee, Wasp, Hornet nest.? Did not know it was even there till the leaves fell.

Golden Northern Bumble Bee (Bombus fervidus) on Clover. Northern California, Mendocino County

Just Joey rose might have been too tightly closed for this little girl to get to the pollen

3 out of 5 mouthfuls of food can be linked to pollinators.

Have a good one

bee in winter aconite

Biene im Winterling

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Chicago, IL

August 2018

Bee by Dominique Richeux Photography

(Merops apiaster)

Raposas

Portugal

As you will probably notice, this photo is very similar to a previous one I posted here some days ago, but I couldn't resist sharing it once more.

(With Vanellus' logistical support)

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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.

So, you may find:

- All the photos for this order CORACIIFORMES (240)

- All the photos for this family Meropidae // Meropídeos (87)

- All the photos for this species Merops apiaster (44)

- All the photos taken this day 2021/05/02 (5)

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