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Not a huge choice while we are in lockdown, It is a little early but had a little luck in the back garden.
This plasterer bee was collecting on ragwort flowers on Meols common. She was extremely obliging turning around and around on the flower allowing multiple shots from different angles. These were used for identification, which initially I still managed to get wrong.
Another bee from my garden - somewhat restricted at the moment due to report writing deadlines looming...
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
(Elizabeth Lawrence)
Smile on Saturday! :-) - UPSIDE DOWN
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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Bee on a wildflower. Anza Borrego State Park, The Flower Fields, Coyote Canyon, California. Dedicated macro lens. No crop.
Yes, I'm obsessed with these cute leafcutter bees that I discovered recently at St Cyrus Nature Reserve. I'm fairly sure this one is a male. He's so cute and fluffy, and I love his eyes.
I'm still hoping for a definite ID, if anyone can help. I know these are leafcutters (Megachile), but I'm not sure which species.
I'm still chasing that perfect macro (this isn't quite as sharp as I'd have liked, and I'm not straight-on to the bee, and a bit of burn-out on his legs.... a good excuse to go and try again though :D).
All that wax from our bees. Not sure how many months worth. That’s what 176kg (390lbs) of wax looks like ! It is sold like that and the money is spent on foundation for frames for the hives.
I think this is in subfamily Anthracinae of the Bombyliidae "bee fly" family. Possibly Anthrax sp.
I was pretty happy with this - never caught a fly in flight before.
Long-horned bee was as close as I could get to an ID on this one. This is another insect foraging in the yellow rabbitbrush. All of these images were captured in an hour in three patches of brush bordering 20 yards of a dirt track. I picked a bush that came up to the window of my truck, waited and shot away. Mud Lake WMA, Mud Lake, Idaho.
I can't for the life of me remember what the flower is but they have flowered for most of the summer and as long as I dead head them, they keep coming back. I love the dark red/orange colour and obviously so does the bee! ;0)
Sitting atop a Black-eyed Susan flower and looking down at me :))
-- Handheld
-- Natural light
-- In our garden
A native bee in my garden. This is an Amegilla aka Blue-banded Bee. About 11mm long, they are so pretty and they are not aggressive. They are great pollinators.
They have thick, reddish-brown fur on their thorax and a black abdomen with iridescent blue, whitish, green or reddish furry stripes. The colours are caused by microscopic diagonal stripes engraved on each hair which reflect light causing these glittering colours. Males have five stripes and females have four. Their faces have yellow, cream or white markings: Land for Wildlife
I have been waiting anxiously for these bees to arrive in my garden. So far I have seen only 2..but hopefully there are more around unseen as yet by me.