🐝 liquid gold
A teaspoon of honey represents the work of 12 bees over their entire lifetime!

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🐝 honey bee angel
I spent a year and a half setting up a rural apiary just to capture this moment of a honey bee collecting nectar from a wild shrub backlit by the setting sun.

Totally worth it.
She looks like an angel.

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🐝 honey bees on a birdbath dais
Bees like to drink dripping water. This birdbath slowly leaks water down its side, where the bees hang out to capture the flow.
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🐝 inside a honey bee hive
A yellow plastic cap is used by a beekeeper to cover a hole during particular times of the year - such as during colder months or during robbing season. When open, this hole allows for ventilation and traffic.

🐝 baby honey bees start out in eggs
Each bee gets room for their metamorphosis. The queen bee lays the eggs in brood comb cells. Worker bees, sisters to the babies in the eggs, help out by placing royal jelly, pollen, and honey around each egg as nutrients.

🐝 honey bee drinking water
She'll use the water to help regulate the hive temperature and to reconstitute crystallized honey. Some worker bees specialize in water collection as their foraging duty. They use a tubular proboscis to do so. Urban beekeepers help by providing fresh water sources.