BeeButts

Dare I say up-bloom?

Possibly "Colletes daviesanus". Tiny and cute.

Most of the time when bees visit these flowers they completely disappear from view. I suspect this one was about to do just that.

As a fun note, if you pop the photo out and zoom in, you can see that its head looks a bit like a helmet with a narrow neck going into it.

This bee was big/beefy. If any of you know what species it might have been, chime in. If it helps, I'm in SE MI.

Focus in the right spot for this community ;) Not that you can see its head, lol

I'm pretty chuffed with this shot. It's not cropped, so zoom!

Taken on an OM-1 with the Olympus 12-40mm pro. I've only recently realized how good Micro Four Thirds sensors are for macro work. The the 2x crop sensor means twice the depth of field and also twice the magnification (eg a 1:3 lens on a crop sensor is effectively the same as a 1:6 lens on a FF sensor). Backgrounds are still nicely blown out.

I don't know what to say....

The bees love my garden but I'd never noticed these orange things on any of them before. I thought it might be a parasite but nope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket

Bees absolutely love our Rose of Sharon, but I guess I could say that about a number of other plants in our yard too.