Campanula bee - for Morgana

Great Photo Jane/Ray :)

Lovely shot and well spotted

do you sedate them first, always a blur when i try lol

U need to be Patient San & ready 2 snap m :)

Great pic. He looks well loaded.

Thanks all.
Sanbaz...Lol !
Toto...great to see all that pollen being collected !

Pretty pic BB :o)

Thanks TT !

Looks like this poor evil has been working overtime, great close-up !

Thanks Flower ..sadly they need to as numbers of them been dropping alarmingly hopefully a better summer will see them recover.

Any specific reason for the drop off in number of your bumble bees Bonkers,( that was a mouth full...lol). That's a problem I've never had to deal with here in my area. We have had a drop off in our native honeybee though and you would be surprised at the culpit. Japanese hornets here, are notorious for taking over honeybee nests in hollowed out trees. It's an awful thing to witness, nothing you can do but watch as hundreds of huge hornets come in and wipe out a colony of tens of thousands of honeybees in the matter of a couple of hours. These hornets are 5 times larger than our honeybees, our bees just don't stand a chance.