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European honey bee

Apis mellifera

Photo by lori.tas
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Dry sclerophill bushland. Most likely living in a wild hive.

Notes:

Licking sugar-water off the glass. This bee was exhausted, so I put some sugar water on the glass to revive it.

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Western honey bee

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Comments (1)
Yasser
Lori, this photo is awesome! At first I thought it was mid-flight, but then I read your description and noticed the glass (and what appears to be a blob of the sugar water.) Really cool close-up!
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PublishedDecember 9, 2010

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