455 pictures found
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) worker visiting Borage (Borago officinalis) flower, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) worker visiting Borage (Borago officinalis) flower, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Sunflower close-up on a background of bright blue sky with bees (Apis mellifera), Valensole, Provence, France
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
Sunflower close-up on a background of bright blue sky with bees (Apis mellifera), Valensole, Provence, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on a rosehip flower, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
© Georges Lopez / Biosphoto
© Georges Lopez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on a rosehip flower, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers produce an abundance of nectar. The nectar is secreted by the flowers to attract the insects who thus ensure the flowers' reproduction by transporting the pollen from the pistils to the stamens.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for the others bees. The males' cells are a third bigger. Their width is 8.75mm and their depth 16-17mm as opposed to 6mm and 12mm for the worker bees' cells.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and carries out 3 to 10 flights per day during 10 to 20 days of activity. A hive has between 100,000 and 200,000 foraging bees and thus harvests between 60 kilos and 300 kilos of honey per year.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning it, transform it into honey by lowering the moisture level from 80% to 17%. The buccal exchange between bees, the trophallaxis, plays a role in the making of the honey through the addition of enzymes.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Microchips are used by researchers to mark the bees and identify them with a scanner at the entrance
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Microchips are used by researchers to mark the bees and identify them with a scanner at the entrance to the hive or near the nurse bees. In that way, it is possible to monitor the bees' activities on an individual level. The times they go out, etc… Research Center HOBOS, Würzburg, Germany.
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Lavender (lavandin) Fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, Europe
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Lavender (lavandin) Fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, Europe
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Honey bee covered with pollen, Provence, France
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
Honey bee covered with pollen, Provence, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
Honeybee flying on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) flying by a flowering Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), Bouches-du-Rhone, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) flying by a flowering Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), Bouches-du-Rhone, France
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with pollen baskets taking flight from Grey-leaved cistus (Cistus albidus) flower, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with pollen baskets taking flight from Grey-leaved cistus (Cistus albidus) flower, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
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Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
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Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
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Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
© Fabrice Simon / Biosphoto
Buckfast bee, nectar cells and dried cells filled with honey, Centre region, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) drinking from the margins of a garden pond, Vaucluse, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) drinking from the margins of a garden pond, Vaucluse, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) feeding from Thyme (Thymus vulgaris), Gard, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) feeding from Thyme (Thymus vulgaris), Gard, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee foraging on French lavender (Lavandula stoechas)
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Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting pollen from flowers, Liguria, Italy
© Tonči Maletic / Biosphoto
© Tonči Maletic / Biosphoto
Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting pollen from flowers, Liguria, Italy
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Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) pollinisateur sur fleur de Gaura de Lindheimer (Gaura lindheimeri), jJrdin des plantes de paris, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) pollinisateur sur fleur de Gaura de Lindheimer (Gaura lindheimeri), jJrdin des plantes de paris, France
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Honey bee (Philanthus triangulum) capturing an European beewolf (Apis mellifera) on a Ball Thistle (Echinops sp), Paris, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Philanthus triangulum) capturing an European beewolf (Apis mellifera) on a Ball Thistle (Echinops sp), Paris, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a blackberry flower (Rubus sp), Pagny-sur-Meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a blackberry flower (Rubus sp), Pagny-sur-Meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum) flower from the Himalayas, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum) flower from the Himalayas, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating meadow sage (Salvia
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating meadow sage (Salvia pratensis) in a flowering meadow, Slovenia
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinator on flowers of Scots rose (Rosa spinosissima), Rosaceae of N Asia and coastal Europe
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinator on flowers of Scots rose (Rosa spinosissima), Rosaceae of N Asia and coastal Europe
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a Prunus Blanche douce flower (Prunus sp), Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a Prunus Blanche douce flower (Prunus sp), Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) at the entrance of the hive, Belgium
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) at the entrance of the hive, Belgium
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Solanaceae flower from NE Argentina Bolivia, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Solanaceae flower from NE Argentina Bolivia, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of the tongue seen under the
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of the tongue seen under the microscope
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of an antenna seen under the microscope
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of an antenna seen under the microscope
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on a flower of Woody fleabane
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on a flower of Woody fleabane (Dittrichia viscosa), Vaucluse, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Linden (Tilia sp) flowers, Gard, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Linden (Tilia sp) flowers, Gard, France
© André Simon / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera), foraging for a butterfly lavender (Lavandula stoecha) flower in spring, Maquis in a forest of the Maures, around Hyéres, Var, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on an organically grown sunflower (Helianthus annuus), Gers, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Floating primrose-willow (Ludwigia peploides) flower, Vaucluse, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Floating primrose-willow (Ludwigia peploides) flower, Vaucluse, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Tritoma (Kniphofia sp.)
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Tritoma (Kniphofia sp.)
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Japanese pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira), Gard, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on Japanese pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira), Gard, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on the flowers of a Hawthorn tree (Crataegus monogyna), Vaucluse, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging on the flowers of a Hawthorn tree (Crataegus monogyna), Vaucluse, France