Bee feeding

Bombyliidae, Subfamily Bombyliinae and Tribe Bombyliini. Don't know the species. Sure glad they don't want blood! Bee Flies feed on nectar as adults, and, as larvae they feed on immature beetles, bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, etc.

One of the larger native bees, megachile policaris, nectaring on a firewheel bloom, gaillardia pulchella.

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bees doing what bees do to flowers

Found this little Male Halictid bee sleeping on a Daisy.

It kind of woke up a bit when I started moving the flower around to find the angles I wanted for the shots (but it only moved very slowly, it hadn't warmed up enough yet to fly away).

(Lasioglossum Chilalictus erythrurum)

Swarming - so didn't go for a close up

Taken a couple of weeks ago on the road between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. I was running late to pick up my husband and daughter, but I just HAD to stop and photograph this patch of flowers along the side of the road. The bee was just a bonus.

Bee inside Bindweed flower.

My Birdcam www.simbird.com

Simon :-)

Gathering Food

St Anne's Park, Dublin, Ireland

蜜蜂 [ Macro ]

Canon EOS 30D + Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

October 08, 2006

by Yueh-Hua

Mill Pond

Thought it was a honey bee at first (it's sad that I didn't really know what honey bees looked like) but probably a red mason bee. Bioblitz May 2014

Nikon D200 - Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:3.5 + TC-200 Teleconverter 1/200 Sec - f/22 - ISO 200 - SB-600 Speedlight with diffuser

Bee

Macro...Manual focus.

Best viewed on black. Press L.

Head of a dead bee at 2x, 100mm macro + 50mm reverse mounted

Takoma Park, MD

Bee family of painted rocks in the woods

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

Lasioglossum sp. bee; about 5-6mm long.

The pollen came from a nearby dandelion flower. Brentmoor Heath, West End, Surrey

Bees in the lavender bush in my front garden.

hanging by its jaws while it has a quick clean up

Cliffside Lane, The Ridge, Fair Oaks / Sacramento County, California

I posted this image in BugGuide.Net to see if the experts could provide an ID. I received a comment on 11/23/2018 from H Go that this image is a Furrow Bee, Halictus tripartitus, a member of the Family Halictidae, Sweat Bees.