This little metallic green sweat bee was out feeding on the grayhead prairie coneflowers and was covered with pollen. It's certainly a challenge shooting the coneflowers in the wind here...

This pollen speckled bee is having a great feast on these Hellibores. Always a cheering sight.

Mud Lake, Ottawa, Canada.

The determined bee was having to lean in to get the nectar even when under attack by two ants this time. A never ending dual!

South Downs National Park, Sussex

Bee on clover 2

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)

I came upon this hydrangea today, and it was abuzz with pollinators. This honeybee seemed to be resting, and allowed me to get many shots.

Fleißiges Bienchen - Busy bee - Abeille occupée - Ape operosa - Abeja trabaradora - Pracowita pszczoła ...

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from my garden...

Almost at the destination

Bee on rhododendron

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

My place.

The sunflowers at Lexington Community Farm are beginning to bloom, pleasing this honeybee.

It's been so cold that I hadn't seen any bees until the sun shone last weekend.

I think I can see my reflection on the bee’s back.

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

What kind of bee is it? Anyone can help?

Plant: Crassula ovata

I have a garden bed that’s all coneflowers. A sea of purple! And the bees love it. At sunset, I step outside and wait for the magic to happen.

Taken at the Huntington Beach Central Park

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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

The bee has collected lots of pollen

The honey bees really like the sweets-spire flowers . . . along with the carpenter bees, bumble bees, etc.

Gathering pollen

Love this shot :)

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

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Portugal - Oeiras - Paço de Arcos

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...

Xylocopa virginica