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Could this be a Cornish black bee? They are quite rare, but some have been moved into hives at Godolphin which isn’t very far away from my garden.
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Could this be a Cornish black bee? They are quite rare, but some have been moved into hives at Godolphin which isn’t very far away from my garden.
Wonderful image Jude and I think it could well be the black bee! The shadow in the image makes it hard to tell. Wonderful big eyes 😀
I have another photo of it at a different angle – so hard to tell and most of my ‘bees’ turn out to be hoverflies!
Have a look at the wing veining description on this page http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay07/cd-hoverflies.html
That’s a pretty comprehensive site! I have had a look, but still can’t tell. I’ll look at the other image tomorrow and see if that is any clearer. Thanks Sarah 🙂
Very comprehensive!! Hope it proves useful 🙂
I am so admiring of your bee photos. After seeing this one, I’m tempted to withdraw my blurry bee from the post I just posted!
Ha! I have blurry ones too. But I don’t put them up as macros 😉
You have steady hands Jude, well done and I see you mention it is not with a macro. That is a big bee…
I did get close in, it was fully occupied 🙂
You’ve been a busy bee 🙂 🙂
You have a very still hand, Jude. I am impressed!
I don’t know what kind of bee it is, but from that angle it looks likes ENORMOUS!!!
Great photo … can even see the transparency of its wings.
Thankfully it is just a normal sized bee, though I have spotted some HUMONGOUS bumble bees zooming around. Probably give me a headache if one hit me!
In the spring we see huge bees too. I don’t know where they come from and they disappear after a few weeks. We call them Sumo Bees 🙂
Haha… good name!