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| A typical 'Italian' bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) busy making honey. Viewed: 6485 times. |
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| A black bee (perhaps Apis mellifera carnica) busy making honey. Viewed: 5131 times. |
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| This is rather rare! One bee is feeding four others at the same time. Can you spot which is giving food? This picture was taken in South Africa, the bees were Apis mellifera scutellata (the so called killer bees). Viewed: 5553 times. |
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| Bees on the entrance. This picture was taken in South Africa, the bees were Apis mellifera scutellata (the so called killer bees). They looked almost exactly like our gentler bees...* Viewed: 5287 times. |
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| Bees busy inspecting and nursing larvae. One bee was marked red on her thorax and tip of abdomen to know her age in an experiment.* Viewed: 4989 times. |
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| The queen rarely makes mistakes, but here she did it. An egg is shown here laid on top of a pollen cell.* Viewed: 5226 times. |
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| two-cappings.jpg Viewed: 6878 times. |
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