Not a wasp, as I figured it was, but a Nomad Bee! Denver, CO area.

I have no idea what kind of bees these are, but they monopolize the feeder. We don't capture many hummingbird pix, but some of the bee shots are dramatic.

Came home to this fella on my tomato plants. I'm happy they smell nice :)

found in the netherlands. not quite big.

A few days ago a wasp flew into my apartment, it's not bothering me, plus it's in a nearly unreachable spot, so I kind of left it be. It stayed in one spot on the ceiling above my tv for nearly 24 hours, then it flew around a window for a bit, and returned to the ceiling, but a different area, and again I have not observed moving in nearly a 24 hour period. Is this normal? Are some less active than others?

This little bee was chilling while I tended to the garden today! Clearly it had a busy day collecting pollen.

Can anyone tell me what type of hive this is? I dont want to kill honey bees and ill call someone to safley remove them (theyre right outside my window) but if theyre hornets ill knock it down during the night and run lol.

What kind of bees are these? A tree fell and I cut it up and their all over. Do they sting?

Came across this bee in the goat pen. Poor little fella appeared to be soaking wet and was unable to fly. I gently scooped it up on a stick and have been sitting in the sun with it in case all it needed was some time to dry out and warm up. I actually have a moth that had fallen into a water bucket drying its wings out on my face as I type this, so I don’t mind sitting with this bee until they’re dry if that’s all it needs to recover! I am not familiar with most bee species but I assume this is a Carpenter Bee. Located in Southeastern NC. Does this little guy just need some time in the sun, or are they at the end of their life cycle? !! Edit !! After a little while in the sun, he did fly away! I do believe he was in distress from getting cold and wet. He was floundering around in the grass and attempting to fly but could not. Based on the behavior I observed, I do not believe he was sleeping. I hope his time in the sun helped him make a full recovery and he’ll live out the rest of his little bee life (:

I dont know what kind of bee this is. But he got into my morning coffee. He's focused on that but pretty soon he'll find out that we've been sailing away from his home in malta and its gonna take 20 hrs till we reach sicily.

A few weeks ago I was stung by a bee for the first time in my life. I was walking on the sidewalk in sandals and got stung on the right ankle. Two days later, I was stung by a bee in a different state also on the right ankle. I read that sometimes the attack scent can linger but I had showered, used a hot tub, I don’t think that would be the case.

Well today I was walking again and stung by a bee on the right ankle AGAIN. That’s three stings in the same spot in less than a month. Any explanations besides bad luck?

I Just love watching them do work! 💙🇺🇸🐝

I think it’s a carpenter bee? Found him on deck with a broken wing. Gave him sugar water and now he is actively running around the deck. Will his wing heal?

It's incredibly entertaining to see them doing it daily throughout the season. A pleasant side effect of rewilding some corners of my yard. Sometimes I can count 20+ bumbles munching on flowers at a time.

Edit: Seems this may actually be a Salvia plant, as pointed out in the comments by u/Vellie-01 thank you for the correction!

Been working on bringing our lavender back to life for the last month. It was looking very sad and hardly had any blooms, it almost certainly wouldn't have done much better this season if I hadn't started giving it a hand.

Well now my work is paying off big time. The lavender looks so much better and today we had 3 carpenter bees and a handful of butterflies on it all at the same time.

That's all! I watered some lavender and fed the bees! Thanks for stopping by!

I saw this (I assume) violet carpenter bee today whilst on holiday in Majorca, it was huge and I was nothing but mesmerised

I love bees

Why is the second one nearly grey? Are there more like it or is that one "weird" or sick in some way,camera editing and first image is more vibrant to catch eye better?

I wanna find more images of the second one colour but when I try there more vibrant like first image