Image Gallery » Pictures of Bees in your gardens
A worker bee on a parsnip flower Here a foraging bee is collecting nectar from the thousands of tiny flowers. | A bee working on broccolli Bees visit the same flowers in a garden dozens of times per day. If a beehive is near to large field crops the bees may only ever forage on one single plant species in all their lives. Bees in urban gardens, however, visit many hundreds of different plants. |
A worker bee collecting nectar If you look closely you can see the long curling tongue protuding to collect the nectar from deep in the thyme flower | Worker bee collecting nectar This bee is collecting nectar with it's long tongue. You can see the brownish curling tongue dipping down into each flower. |
Worker bee collecting pollen This bee has collected orange pollen and has packed it into clumps on a special hair on the rear legs. Upon return to the hive the pollen clumps will be deposited into cells for storage. Bees collect pollen for proteins vitamins and minerals. Without pollen, bees could not survive. | Pollen 'sacs' This bee has collected a large amount of pollen from flowers. Bees need pollen for proteins and minerals. Without pollen bees could not survive. |