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This is quite a big bee - almost an inch in length. An expert identified it as a 'Cuckoo' bumblebee; that is a bee which - like a cuckoo - lays its eggs in the nests of other bees and leaves them to rear its young. So it is a parasite. Amazing eh?
Now that the pink bee balm is blooming, all the bees are on hand, including this small black variety. Not sure of ID, but maybe someone can help? Sussex Cty, New Jersey.
A bee bole is a cavity or alcove in a wall or a separate free-standing structure set against a wall. A skep is placed inside the bee bole. Before the development of modern bee hives, bee boles were a practical way of keeping bees in some parts of Britain, although most beekeepers kept their skeps in the open covered by, for example, old pots, or sacking. The bee bole helped to keep the wind and rain away from the skep and the bees living inside
Found it struggling on the ground the night before, with its sting missing. It died a few hours later and I decided to take its photo.
Composite of 3 images stacked together to achieve greater depth of field.
A bee plunges its proboscis into the heart of a chive flower in its hunt for nectar. 105mm macro lens, ring flash
I have a large Lavender plant in my garden, which is helping to make some tasty honey somewhere close, just don't know where...
Here's a different kind of bee on one of our cosmos. Does anyone know bees? I'd like to learn what these are. They're shorter and blacker than honey bees. Notice the shape of the abdomen. This shot, taken across town, shows a bee that is more familiar to me.