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| A typical 'Italian' bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) busy making honey. Viewed: 6020 times. |
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| A black bee (perhaps Apis mellifera carnica) busy making honey. Viewed: 4728 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: 5142 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: 4864 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: 4624 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: 4795 times. |
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| two-cappings.jpg Viewed: 6364 times. |
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