Bees are beautiful and they are our friends. Unfortunately we are treating them badly, by spraying products on agricultural fields and gardens that are toxic for bees. Bees are disappearing, and with them many plants and trees that depend on them for pollination will also disappear.
Please fight against the use of bee-killing products.
The pictures, taken by the U.S. Geological Survey's Bee Inventory and Monitoring programme, show that bees' colours range from blue to green, that some have no stripes and that their shapes range from large bumblebees to those as small as a grain of rice.
Bees are found everywhere - in the middle of fields, urban areas, gardens and even in marshes where they forage on blooming wetland plants.
Most people are completely oblivious to the existence of the many species of small solitary bees nesting in their lawns because they do not sting and don't match our mind picture of what a bee should look like.
See beautiful pictures here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2404086/Bee-photographs-reveal-hidden-beauty-alien-like-shapes-colours-patterns-insects.html
More on endangered bees on this blog - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Bees
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Link to this post - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/beautiful-close-up-pictures-of-bees.html
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