It was a warm, sunny afternoon and the cherry was at full bloom (three weeks earlier than last year), attracting a menagerie of bees, but...

Continuing with the rain theme. Here you have a shot I took earlier of a soaking wet Melecta albifrons , during a brief sunny spell. She w...

A Melecta albifrons male has been feeding lazily on the Erysimum in the afternoon a sunny day.  Clambering over the flowers, not botheri...

The plum tree started flowering last week and today it was buzzing with bees. I counted six species, Bombus terrestris and lapidarius que...

Many nectar-feeding insects prefer to use abundant floral resources. That is, a plant is much more frequently visited when there is a large ...