Banking on Bees

Well we all are banking on bees to pollinate our flowers and food plants!  Here are a selection of solitary bees taken over the bank holiday weekend.

First one from Garston Wood, Dorset, that handily posed on bluebell flower.  The first two are stacked macro images in Helicon Focus.

Blue Bluebell Bee
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Blue Bluebell Bee
Bluebell Bee
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Bluebell Bee
Bee on a Bell
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Bee on a Bell

Then from river bank field near Wimborne – this bee climbed onto my brother Peter’s macro flash diffuser.  Well what else could I do but take it.

Solitary Bee on Diffuser
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Solitary Bee on Diffuser

At the same location I took another one, resting on a dandelion.  Again the first of these two shots are stacked.

Bee in the Pollen
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Bee in the Pollen
Solitary bee laying in dandelion
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Solitary bee laying in dandelion

Here is a single macro image of it.

Hello I be Bee
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Hello I be Bee

Finally this small ( probably a sweat bee ) I found emerging from a flower at Blashford Lakes

Bee emerging from dandelion
Canon EOS 760D (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Bee emerging from dandelion

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