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Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting necrar from honey clover (Melilotus albus) flowers. Tasty honey is on the way…
Pszczołą miodna (Apis mellifera) zbierająca nektar z kwiatów nostrzyka białego (Melilotus albus). Zapowiada się pyszny miód…
The bee hives (centre) are well situated for their residents with the flower meadow in front of them. A Wiltshire landscape view not far from Bratton in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A big bee on my agastache today.
Photographed in Maryland.
Canon 80D, Canon MPE lens, Canon twin flash, aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400.
A closer view of a previous upload, of an adorable male leafcutter bee, probably Megachile centuncularis (patchwork leafcutter bee), feeding on the pollen of a calendula flower in my garden last summer. I often saw these males (and female Megachile centuncularis, which are far easier to ID) at these stunning flowers.
Website rangers WWF The bees help flowers and plants in love. It works like this: a male flower has stamens. There's pollen on it. That looks like yellow powder. A bee dives into the flower in search of nectar. The pollen sticks to its fur. The bee then flies to a female flower for even more nectar. It leaves the pollen on its pistil. You call that pollination. This is how a flower is fertilized and new seeds grow. Without bees and other insects, the love between flowers and plants would go terribly wrong and strawberries, tomatoes, watermelons or apples would no longer grow.
I think I may have wrongly named this plant the other day in a posting, Can anyone confirm for me is this a 'Mahonia'
Taken in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
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Taken at Wolseley Nature Centre, Staffordshire.
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Wikipedia: The green bee-eater (Merops orientalis), also known as little green bee-eater, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water. Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named.
Lots of Bee-flies in The Dales yesterday, but this one was the most obliging as it had settled down for a spot of serious sunbathing!
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Bees are becoming quite abundant in the garden now, not got round to IDing them yet. Think its a Tawny Mining Bee.
Pretty hot for the last day of spring/first day of summer - it seems it will be a scorcher this summer.