Bees and butterflies like the cone flowers this year. I'm seeing a lot of activity.

Honey bees obtain all of their nutritional requirements from a diverse combination of pollen and nectar. Pollen is the only natural protein source for honey bees. pollen collected by bees and harvested for pollination must be used within a few hours because it loses its potency rapidly, possibly because of the effects of enzymes or other chemicals from the bees.

Worker bee which is 'fanning' at the hive entrance, She is exposing the white 'Nasonov gland' near the tip of the abdomen which exudes 'home' pheromone. The hive has been disturbed by my inspection and they are all 'broadcasting' the signal that 'this is home, everything is OK'.

Note that she has one full pollen basket - but she has dropped the other pollen load somewhere.

An unanticipated bee headed for the poppy.

Mason bee Osmia rufa. I assume this is a male

The cleptoparasite of the next bee photo ... Andrena flavipes

A faded bombus terrestris?

At the RSPB.

Bishy-barney-bee, Norfolk for Ladybird with textures.

It must bee love

Beekeeper Bob is Beekeeping Bees near Bridgeville, California

HBW :-)

Here he slipped and fell

come have a look at icarecafe.com

This bee spent the night on the marigolds he had waterdroplets all over him.

Bumble Bee in Flight

A bee

bee and flower

Apis mellifera

sauvé de la noyade sur l'ongle de mon index , pas le temps de faire 2 photos , elle est partie de suite

Bumble bee

I like the way the bee has its leg through the centre bits of the flower.

Lip na Cloiche, Ballygown, Mull.

In Bern - Switzerland we have a beautiful public Garden, the Rose-Garden. Recently, i've taken a tour with my Lensbaby haunting for some macro shots. Thats one of them.

EOS 300D

Lensbaby 2.0 w. 4x Macro

f4, 1/60

My first attempt at marco photography!

Tamron 180mm 3.5 Marco lens.

June 23 201

My first capture the a Bee's eye...which I love seeing.

queen bee in the middle of the action

Anyone able to confirm ID? Found males and females at nesting site in fence post next to meadow in Jersey

Circle B Bar Reserve, Polk County, Florida, 11/19/2019

Messenger of spring.

By Heather Moreman

Bee at Sakonnet Vineyards, Little Compton, RI

I find the bumblebees very difficult. The closest I can see for this is Bombus lucorum- white tailed bumble bee. However the colouring seems very different from in the pictures i can find (maybe they are a bit different in Ireland). There are lots and lots of them with this same coloration on the ragwort so it is definitely a very common species.