The amount of bees in this picture is just filthy. Nine species spotted today

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Honey bee on one of the crab-apples that's grown from seed.

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Maybe... Bombus vosnesenskii Vosnesensky bumble bee... crawling and flying around the crocuses.

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One of the first bumble bees of the year. She was crawling around on the ground from flower to flower then climbed up one of the bigger Pickwicks but couldn't quite get into the flower then flew off. Probably Bombus huntii.

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Brown-belted bumblebee (𝘉𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴) perched on a sunflower (𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 sp.). 🌻 🐝

(This is one of my favorite pictures I've taken. I took it five years ago and posted it on my previous instance back in 2024, and Throwback Thursday seemed a good excuse to give it a home here as well.)

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Bee butt!!

Common eastern bumblebee (𝘉𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴) exploring obedient plant (𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢) flowers, from last august:

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