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Every winter this happens. These dwarf honey bees come to my fifth-floor container garden...

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Uploaded on Dec 31, 2011

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This butterfly is the reason why people should try and preserve the weedy bits of grassland...

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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011

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The same little beauty, but it flew up, sat down on another vine and presented its back view. It is...

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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011

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I have been chasing this particularly striking beauty for more than a year now. It never stands...

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Uploaded on Dec 17, 2011

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Could this possibly be a stingless bee of the trigona species. It was really teeny tiny and I have...

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Uploaded on Jun 29, 2011

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The tree was in bloom and all kinds of bee visitors had arrived including this giant bee, apis...

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Uploaded on Jun 29, 2011

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Here's some pollination in action. This apis florea bee is creeping over a tamarind flower anther,...

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Uploaded on Jun 29, 2011

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Sometimes a solitary bee will choose a branch away from its buzzing brothers. This one happened to...

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Uploaded on May 27, 2011

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I was looking out into the tamarind tree yesterday to watch the male nomia bees gathering on their...

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Uploaded on May 25, 2011

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I always like to take a shot at this tidally-locked world hanging in our night sky, but with a...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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This is a teddy bear of a bee, the blue banded bee with its furry head, plump blue striped body and...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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I wanted a picture of a blue banded bee visiting a flower and at Empress Garden in Pune, I was able...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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I am always hoping for more bee visitors to my garden up on the fifth floor. But apparently so was...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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All manner of bees adore these flowers. Look at those tiger stripes on the pale yellow flower petal...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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These male nomia bees are all buzzing about the end of this bare tamarind branch, after a day feasting among its small yellow flowers.

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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At first I thought these were black and white bees, but those white bands on their abdomen...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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I knew when the tamarind tree outside our building started to flower I could expect some...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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It's almost seven o clock in the evening and there is a crush to find space on these bare twigs of...

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Uploaded on May 20, 2011

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