Honey bee on fall aster.

Bees on Scots Thistle in our wild garden

Busy bee

Burnaby BC

6/21/13

Male mason bee on dandelion. Focus stacked using zerene

It turns out bees are damn hard to get in focus!

This is part of the brood chamber. Some cells have been used already and the eggs have developed into bees. You can just see bees gnawing their way through the wax capping on their little cell.

We also scraped off some drone cells from the bottom of the frames, and checked for signs of varroa in the grubs: fortunately, none.

Busy pollinating for a future pie.

When the sweet nectar is that good ,you need to have a good look inside to make sure you got it all

Mason bee feeding on Valerian - I assume this is an Osmia species - quite a large one. It is Osmia rufa - a very faded specimen

bee flying towards an purple lupine

Ischia

A bee in our garden, taken for World Honey Bee day for the group challenge 118 pictures in 2018. I took loads of photos of yellow and black flying insects but most of them were different types of wasp!

ooc

First oil infusion of the season, beautiful Arnica This is one I’ve kept on hand since the girls were babies, it’s absolute magic for bumps and bruises and works wonders on injuries, sprains, sore or pulled muscles, etc by relieving pain, reducing swelling and increasing circulation to the area to speed the healing process. Arnica is anti inflammatory, and has long been used in the mountainous regions where it grows to treat all sorts of injuries very efficiently. It actually is amazing how effective it is.. anytime my kids had a bruise or a goose egg as toddlers it would disappear within minutes after we applied Arnica. Also fantastic for any sore or pulled muscles after a longer hike or workout. Note: never apply on broken skin or consume Arnica orally unless in a reduced homeopathic preparation (can be fatal if consumed in large amounts) Making several jars of infused almond oil for salves, etc. #arnica #plantmedicine #herbalism #infusedoil #asteraceae #herbalmedicine #wildcrafting #medicinalplants #arnicacordifolia #beautifulbritishcolumbia #wildharvest #earth #antiinflammatory #inthewoods #mountainplants #subalpine #healing #healingplants #treasure #urbanhomestead #mountains #okanaganlife

Tokina 90mm 2.8 Nikon D700

bumble bee

Oli teine veetünni maandunud. Natuke nühkis ennast ja kui tiivad kuivad olid lendas edasi ...

Bees have moved into the sparrow terrace on the side of the house

This bee was about to land on this pretty red flower. The flower looks just like a Texas Bluebonnet flower, but it is red instead of blue. The bee has a lot of pollen on its legs already! It is a hard worker!

Miner bee female on my arm - Andrena haemorrhoa ?

Natural light.

I was shooting another insect when this lovely bee landed on my arm

Zuiko digital 50mm f/2 ED macro

I don,t know quite what type it is but this lovely bee was warming up on a wall and was quite obliging. This is a Carder bee.

Photo thken...Craigavon, Co.Armagh.

© Cat Art

The Bee Orchid grows to a height of 15–50 centimetres (5.9–20 in). This hardy orchid develops small rosettes of leaves in autumn. They slowly continue to grow during winter. Basal leaves are ovate or oblong-lanceolate, upper leaves and bracts are ovate-lanceolate and sheathing. The plant blooms from mid-April to July producing a spike composed from one to twelve flowers.The flowers have large sepals, with a central green rib and their color varies from white to pink, while petals are short, pubescent, yellow to greenish. The labellum is trilobed, with two pronounced humps on the hairy lateral lobes, the median lobe is hairy and similar to the abdomen of a bee. It is quite variable in the pattern of coloration, but usually brownish-red with yellow markings. The gynostegium is at right angle, with an elongated apex. These orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhiza (a soil-dwelling fungus).

Now that it is winter, I figured I could go over all of my summer pic's and pull out any that catch my eye.

Miner bee on Euphorbia