Bees
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Bees pollinate a third of the food consumed by humans.
Without them, especially the Honey Bee, the world would starve.
UK BUMBLEBEES
Buff-tailed – queen Bombus terrestris
Buff-tailed worker/male Bombus terrestris
White-tailed – queen/worker Bombus lucorum
White-tailed – male Bombus lucorum
Garden – queen/worker/male Bombus hortorum
Large Garden – q/w/m Bombus ruderatus
Tree – queen/worker/male Bombus hypnorum
Tree – melanistic Bombus hypnorum
Red-tailed – queen/worker Bombus lapidarius
Red-tailed – male Bombus lapidarius
Early – queen/worker Bombus pratorum
Early – male Bombus pratorum
Cuckoo Vestal – female Bombus vestalis
Cuckoo Vestal – male Bombus vestalis
Cmn Carder – queen/worker Bombus pascuorum
Common Carder – male Bombus pascuorum
early season Cmn Carder Bombus pascuorum
Cmn Carder?
Bombus pascuorum?
Shrill Carder Bombus sylvarum
Red-shanked Carder Bombus ruderarius
other Bumblebees
HONEY BEES
Italian Honey Bee Apis mellifera ligustica
Dark/Black Honey Bee Apis mellifera mellifera
Male Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Re-homing Honey Bees
Feral Chimney Bees
UK SOLITARY BEES
Violet Carpenter Bee
Spring Flower Bee - f
Spring Flower Bee - m
Red Mason Bee
Three's a crowd
Wool Carder Bee - m
Wool Carder Bee - f
Tawny Mining Bee
Ashen Bee
Ashy Mining Bee
Orange-tailed Mining Bee
Osmia niveata - f?
leafcutter bee?
mason or leafcutter
Mourning Bee (cuckoo)
- f
Cuckoo bee: Nomada sp.
Nomada goodeniana
FOREIGN BEES
Canarian Bumblebee
Canarian Bumblebee
Madeiran Bumblebee
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Anthophora sp
Anthophora maderae
White-banded Digger
Canary Blue-banded
Blue-banded Bee (Aus.)
Tenerife
Kazakhstan
Cuckoo Bee:
Thyreus histrionicus
BEE-LIKE
Wasps and Hornets
Hover Flies, Bee Flies
Clearwing Moths