Lavender Bee

Our Lavender is very bright at the moment, so todays photo was going to be of the flowers, but there was a bonus bee just sat on a flower for the longest time....
....so, who am I to pass up an opportunity?.....

[KWind]

Nice macro! Great colours here too.

[John Sutton]

Excellent capture. The bees never stop long enough for me to get a decent picture. Fav 🙂

[CC Folk]

Your British Bees are so much prettier than ours...nice capture and background.

[Paul]

Fantastic close up. Very nicely done 👍👍

[Beryl Lloyd]

Super macro !

[Lou Ann]

Oh my word, this is incredible! I'm like @gardenfolk , your bees are prettier than our bees!

[Dawn]

Stunning macro fav

[Renee]

He looks fat and happy to be there...

[Babs]

Excellent. he is a very fluffy bee.

[Valerie Chesney]

This is gorgeous!! Great fat bee on this lovely lavender...FAV

[FBailey]

This is lovely! If I ever manage to get a pic like this I will be so content:)

[Casablanca]

I think he looks like he is doing an assault course and trying very very hard to get up and over that flower to the next challenge....... but then I am a bit nuts!

[Claude Trew]

Fabulous macro shot.

[Phil Sandford]

Absolutely wonderful capture.

[M. Brutus]

Great detail and wonderful background blur. Must be cold there. The bee seems to be wearing his winter jacket.

[Carole Sandford]

@kwind @gardenfolk @paul10 @beryl @louannwarren @dawnee @onewing @happysnaps @fbailey @claudiet @phil_sandford Thank you all for your great comments & favs.
@johnsutton I usually have trouble with them constantly moving, but this one was like it had been glued to the flower!
@gardenfolk I have only ever seen Bees looking like this, I didn't know they could look any different?
@mbrutus As above, this is what our Bees always look like. Compared to your part of the world it probably is cold here, but in actual fact we have just had a few days of heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees C !
Your visits, favs & comments are always very elcome.

[CC Folk]

@carole_sandford You bees are fat and furry. Our honey bees are just brown and black and elongated.

[Carole Sandford]

@gardenfolk You learn something new every day - thanks

[CC Folk]

@carole_sandford I'd send you a photo but don't know how to do that.

[Carole Sandford]

@gardenfolk no me neither, its not like facebook where you can post a picture in the comments - or at least if you can, I don't know how, lol

[CC Folk]

@carole_sandford I guess only to personal email. I did think about adding it to my project but the bee was not striking after I saw all the prettier, fatter, blacker and furry bees! Our honey bees are ordinary in comparison.

[CC Folk]

@carole_sandford
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[Carole Sandford]

Thanks, they look a bit more like a wasp.

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

very well!