Probably Carpenter Bee on comfrey

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.

庭のツツジに飛んできたハチ。久しく使っていなかったマクロレンズの日光消毒を兼ねて（笑）

誤ってISOを100に固定していたため、意図せずスローシャッターになりました。

I mistakenly fixed the ISO to 100, so it slowly became a slow shutter.

Mud Lake, Ottawa, Canada.

Bee on clover 2

Coming in to land

from my garden...

Abelha

Bee

Bee on rhododendron

Bee Eaters courtship ritual....

A Bombylius major in the field, for Fly Day Friday - HFDF!

One of two bee orchids found in the old quarries at Aggs Hill in Gloucestershire.

Close up of a bee sucking honey. Single image using flash and diffuser.

This one took a little time out from working the beautyberry flowers to sit on a leaf...not sure what was going on here...

summer in October

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.

Biene - Bee

In purple basil, Tulsa Botanic Garden...

A happy bee in his wildlife flower garden that I planted this year.

I barely noticed this very tiny bee in my Limelight hydrangea flower.

Fujifilm X-H1 PRO Neg. Hi simulation with no post processing. SOOC

Thanks for your visit, have a wonderful day.

Bienenfresser beim Abflug

Taken at the Huntington Beach Central Park

How do they carry that much pollen?

122 in 2022 #119 World Bee Day

It's raining and will be possibly be for a few days so no real bees in sight.

Aptenia, I think...

Bienen bei der Arbeit - Bees at work

Gathering pollen

Bee

Love this shot :)

Thank you very much Dani Vellender for confirming the ID of the insect Cheers :)

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Drone Fly (Eristalis Tenax)

Mosca-Abelha (Eristalis Tenax)

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Our lantana flowers are blooming again. The butterflies haven't found them, but the bees have...

Some pretty clever & bold graphics on the awning at Bee's Confectionary in Hope, B.C. -- in operation for at least 60 years.

And speaking of (real) bees, check out my new gallery of some spectacular photos of bees by others on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/130881643@N04/galleries/72157697227...