Very long tongue

Bumblebees have very long tongues, so they can get to many flowers inaccessible to bees. Here I managed to catch a bumblebee on aconite.

[Maggiemae]

Goodness, your photography is splendiferous! fav

[Wylie]

Oh, well done. Fancy that a bumble bee tongue shot!

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Love the background tones and dof, as well as the bee

[Dianne]

Great timing for this lovely image.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

oh wow

[Babs]

Wow incredible fav

[Joan Robillard]

I laughed so hard at what you wrote on my picture and at that moment I needed to laugh. Thanks Great shot

[KV]

Nice!

[Mags]

Wonderful capture!

[Merrelyn]

Nice capture.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wonderful details.

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Lady Magpie (Heather)]

Super macro capture. FAV

[gloria jones]

Terrific details

[carol white]

A lovely close up capture.Fav😊

[Kate]

Great closeup. I didn’t know bumblebees had long tongues.

[Margaret Brown]

Beautiful, fav

[Ellen Bogenschutz]

Terrific detail in this guy!

[Carolinesdreams]

Great close up. Such wonderful creatures. I’ve never known what aconite looks like.

[Esther Rosenberg]

fantastic details, so cool to watch!

[Asli]

Amazing details, lovely!

[RonM]

Lovely detail.

[Kathy]

It almost looks like the bee uses the antenna to help. Nice close up.

[Ryan]

I had no idea! Great capture

[Heather]

Great capture and dof! (and new information for me...who knew about bees' tongues? :)

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great macro- the detail on the "sipper" is excellent!