Smells Like Lemons! - _TNY_0365
The flower which looks like a cross between a pillow and a pretty brooch is a white variety of the great masterwort (Astrantia major).
The small black visitor is a masked bee. It looks like either an annulate masked bee (Hylaeus annulatus) or a common masked bee (H. communis) - but given how little yellow there is on the hindmost tibia, it appears this is H. annulatus.
In Sweden, masked bees are known as "citronbin", meaning lemon bees and this is because they supposedly smell a bit lemony though I haven't managed to experience that myself.
Smells Like Lemons! - _TNY_0365
The flower which looks like a cross between a pillow and a pretty brooch is a white variety of the great masterwort (Astrantia major).
The small black visitor is a masked bee. It looks like either an annulate masked bee (Hylaeus annulatus) or a common masked bee (H. communis) - but given how little yellow there is on the hindmost tibia, it appears this is H. annulatus.
In Sweden, masked bees are known as "citronbin", meaning lemon bees and this is because they supposedly smell a bit lemony though I haven't managed to experience that myself.