Spotted on my windowsill, this bee was quite dormant due to it being chilly and windy. The shot was really awkward as the insect was either walking or being blown about.

Bee family of painted rocks in the woods

bee

I warmed this one up a bit what do you think? I used a single flash on camera to freeze this fellow.

Bees in the lavender bush in my front garden.

A cute sweat bee in a daisy during a rainstorm.

Canon MP-E 65mm + 430ex flash

I love bees, she was on a coneflower in the front garden

Busy bee's in the garden.

I had totally forgotten that I had taken this picture. I took it on the same afternoon as the other bee-picture, yet somehow this one got off my radar...

I used an SB-700 strobe positioned in the top-left corner.

Best viewed large on black - Press 'L'

Bee on Bombus_Gaillardia.

Donated by Laura Russo to NetworkBees

for the "Photos of Plants Good for Bees" project. Photo taken in Rock Springs, Pennsylvania

which is part of the Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest Ecoregion that includes

the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and parts of

Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Honey Bee on Eryngium

I got such a buzz out of taking these pics!

Attempting to take shots of bees in the garden with a Canon 18-200 lens with a 20mm Kenko extension tube attached.

Honey Bee

Fly~Bee

Canon 400D, Sigma 70-300 APO Macro DG

bee on white flowers

I'm hoping that these will provide nest sites for solitary bees next year - I'll have to wait and see...

My neighbor had a bee hive and was cleaning it out for spring so I took the opportunity to grab some photos of the cell structure. I love the structure and varying colors that were present - this was a big surprise to me.

On our back lawn. I discovered (and accidentally uncovered) it when strimming our overlong grass! They didn't attack, but did "fizz" quite loudly. I covered it up again, and they used it for several weeks before moving on.

Bumble bee feeding on the nectar from a Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sensation’

Canon MR-14EX Macro Ring Lite

© Yvonne Green

A cuckoo bee (Nomada) drinking nectar. These bees are cleptoparasites: instead of gathering food supplies for their offspring, they lay their eggs on the pollen masses that other bees collect; once they hatch, the larvae often eat any of the host's.

A bee busies itself on an Echinacea flower .

So 50 to 200 failures later, I managed to capture a working bee in this macro. Using the Olloclip, you have to practically be touching them to get them in focus, and they hate that. I guess I had to finally find a bee with an "I don't care" personality.

Bee and daisy

Nikon D7100 + Tamron SP AF 60mm f2 Di II Macro Lens

f/9 @ 1/320 @ iso 800

(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)

Note tongue sticking out

Vintage 200mm M42 Clubman Manual/Focus lens was used to take this hand held macro shot. Distance to subject 2 to 3ft.