Native bee.

[Slug]

On Rosemary bush.

• SLT-A57
• 105mm F2.8
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 800

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

That looks like our Honey Bee. Nice shot.

 

[Slug]

That looks like our Honey Bee. Nice shot.

Bit hard to tell the size but smaller than our honeybees and darker colouring.

• SLT-A57
• 105mm F2.8
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 250

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

This is our Western Honey Bee (in my garden )

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[mapleleaf56]

Bit hard to tell the size but smaller than our honeybees and darker colouring.

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According to google lens it’s a leaf cutter bee which is smaller and darker in colour than a honey bee.

 

[Alan Clark]

Bit hard to tell the size but smaller than our honeybees and darker colouring.

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That is not a bee, it is a hoverfly. Bees have two pairs of wings and quite long antennae on top of the head. Hoverflies have one pair of wings with small stubby antennae in the middle of the face.

 

[mapleleaf56]

That is not a bee, it is a hoverfly. Bees have two pairs of wings and quite long antennae on top of the head. Hoverflies have one pair of wings with small stubby antennae in the middle of the face.

This is a hover fly….. as you say a hover fly has stubby antenna but on Slug’s first photo they are much longer than a hover fly…

• ILCE-7RM4A
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 160

 

[Alan Clark]

Slug's first photo is a bee, only the second is a hoverfly.

 

[Slug]

Slug's first photo is a bee, only the second is a hoverfly.

I recon you're right, I've grabbed the wrong pic from my files. I have quite a few pics of bees and hoverflies.

• SLT-A57
• 105mm F2.8
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 800

• DMC-LX5
• 5.1 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 200