Honey with a hint of Lavender

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Cold Morning has the Honey Bees moving a little Slow.

HBBBT :)

Honey Bee on Climbing Aster

(Symphyotrichum carolinianum)

Asteraceae Eastern N. America

Those big eyes, that great smile...means Spring is here and there will be a lot of flowers to enjoy!

We took a walk at Boyce Thompson Arboretum on Labor Day. 10° F cooler than Phoenix, and just a 45 minute drive, it offered a nice early morning break from the heat of summer. And the place was abuzz with bees busy pollinating and doing the stuff bees do.

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Bee collecting pollen. There is so much we can and should do for our pollinators, from planting native flowers and shrubs, to eliminating the use of pesticides. Please do what you can and encourage others too.

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happy hump day! ;-D

Bee / Abeille

a Bee flying to a flower

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Lamezia

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Biene und Schwebfliege - bee and hoverfly

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Getting close at Shinn Historical garden

Bumble Bee busy feeding in a Honeysuckle flower. I only noticed the tiny fly after I uploaded this HBBBT!

Sorry for not commenting on many photos tonight but I give up, Flickr seems very slow anyway but my internet connect is rubbish tonight must be the weather or perhaps our B&B guests are watching a movie on their laptop? I did a ping test & I have just 1.38mbps download speed (it's usually about 2). Upload speed 0.13mbps - ridiculously slow.

Tirol

So interesting how a Bee Removes the Pollen from a Tiny Flower.

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Feeding on gallardia. mp-e65mm, iso 100, 1/160, f /14

This sleepy bumblebee was in the middle of the path in Regent's Park on a cloudy, cold morning. It was in danger of being accidentally crushed as people walked along, so my lovely daughter rescued it to the grass by the path using a sycamore seed! (She is kind, but not brave enough to touch a bee!)

Abeille ramassant le pollen

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Thank you for you visit and comments Bee well!

Hee! hee! :)

This photo was shot through a thick stand of these purple blossoms, which explains the softness of the bee's behind. I couldn't get as good an angle unless I knocked down some flowers, and I NEVER damage the area or hurt the insects.

Family: Apidae. Species: Apis mellifera. (Middleton, MA)

A female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) in our Staffordshire garden yesterday.

It was a great day for bee photography. The day before had been warm and sunny and lots of bees had been active. They it turned chilly and some of those that ventured out got "stranded"; waiting for some sunshine. An opportunity not to be missed!

It was lovely to see this native bee feeding on the Conospermum flowers north of Badgingarra this week.

Notice the pink pollen on her leg.

Photo: Jean

Last summer I was on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the early morming and came across a patch of flowers. Within the flowers I found several "sleeping bees". At first I thought they were dead, but as the sun came over the ridge they woke up and flew away.

Another one of my macro shots

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