Male lasioglossum calceatum bee feeding on parsley flowers

Bees in my Sussex garden, on my apple tree blossom.

Eastern Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa virginica

Toronto, ON, Canada

2017

This guy just hung out for a very long time on this plant. Quite nice of him. I guess he was cold? When the sun came back out, he flew off.

17/06/2017

Bumble Bee on a Goldenrod.

Bees, Insects, Friends

Skittish flies these, difficult to get close. They are bee parasites as well as bee mimics but are true flies.

Love these little bugs.. they are only out for a couple of weeks in early spring. If you like macro photography get out there now and find one of these beauties!

Found this furball napping in my garden.

Bees on the Azaleas

Doing Our Bit For The Bees. All these photos were taken in our own front garden

Bumble bee working clematis flowers.

Iso 800

F5.6

1/4000 sec

Tamron 17-270 lens

Close up filter +4

Sweat bee in dandelion flower- Lasioglossum sp ?

Etherley Moor, 3rd July 2018

Andrew Spelling Bee

shot taken first day with 100mm macro

A party of Bee-eaters are breeding in Norfolk and being protected by the RSPB. A viewing area has been set up and at least 4 birds were showing when we visited recently - July 2022

Long Mynd.

I originally thought this may have been a Tachytes wasp, but this looks like a type of Cuckoo Leafcutting Bee (Coelioxys sp.)

Thanks bleu geo for correcting my ID. :)

Fleißige Biene

A male Tawny Mining Bee

Sacramento Bee

Again another Honey type Bee, they all seem to look slightly different and I am sure this is not Apis melifera :)

The garden is alive with bees of all different types at the moment. The particularly love our chives, lavender and the weird flower that is sprouting from our palm tree....

I have a large Lavender plant in my garden, which is helping to make some tasty honey somewhere close, just don't know where...

Another juvenile, at least immature. No tail spikes and no dark stripe in the throat.