Honey Bee

[Oregon Viking]

 

[GDub62]

Hard working little fellas

 

[creskol]

That's awesome!

 

[Cariboo5]

Perfect picture .....

 

[ToddsPoint]

Great pic but I don’t think it is a honey bee. Eyes and legs are wrong. Here is honey bee.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I think your pic is of a hover fly.

 

[creskol]

Seems like there is a lot of variation in honey bees.

OSBeehives | Types of Bees & Their Traits

The Western honey bee is one of 20,000 known types of bee, spanning every continent bar Antarctica. This article tests data generated from 609 beehives around the world with common knowledge about some of the 44 types of honey bee, most notably apis mellifera.

www.osbeehives.com

 

[Oregon Viking]

Another pic, same "buzzing" insect.... above
Oregon hover fly below.

 

[rginn]

Man, that's a good pic, Oregon Viking.

 

[Old Dude]

Really great pic, but I believe it is a hover fly also.