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African Honey Bee

Apis mellifera scutellata

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Ashish
Me to not Botanist or Biologist.. The info you telling is different Genus... what I want to ask. Hope you understand. But your spotting is very beautifully captured. Here is big life seen..!!
dungeonmasterShu
Ashish, quite right. see i'm no botanist, and the only description of "Tricholepis" in both wiki and eol is: "Tricholepis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family." perhaps you could further describe the genus to clarify for me? The plant was already identified (thanx Wren) in a previous comment as a Bull Thistle "Cirsium vulgare". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_thistle)
Ashish
We see here similar plant in India.. http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Smooth%20Tricholepis.html
Ashish
Asteraceae is Daisy family... These all thistle plants classified in Asteraceae... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium
dungeonmasterShu
Ashish: no it is not a daisy, it is a thistle.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle)
Ashish
Nice..Is the Herb is Tricholepis sp..?
Carolina
Hi dungeonmasterShu, beautiful bees! I see you have submitted them to the Great Pollinator Project mission, but unfortunately this mission is only for the NYC area. :)
Wren
on a bull thistle! beautiful photo - i didn't know bull thistles grow in s. africa.
Juan DiTrani
this is a nice picture, you have a Honey bee, a couple of Andrenid bees and a fly
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PublishedOctober 14, 2011

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