A peek into the hive. Here you see a young queen in the center, a few drones (stockier, larger eyes) and the rest are workers.  The glistening liquid in cells are honey.
A bee foraging on an aster, a plant providing nectar right near and after frost in Michigan.  Published as a cover for the Octo 2005 issue of Bee Culture.

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A honey bee on an ornamental peach flower. Publiched as cover photo in Journal of Experimental Biology Sep 2004 [207 (19)], Current Biology.  Also used by the BeeSpace web at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A honey bee on "bee bee tree" flowers.  Evodia danielli, family Rutaceae (same family as oranges).   Simply the most attractive flowers to bees. I have seen over 20 bees on a  single inflorescence.
A bee in flight to Chinese cabbage flowers. 

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A bee foraging on Japanese Aster.  Published as a cover photo on the Nov 2005 issue of American Bee Journal.

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An European honey bee foraging on pussy willow. Okemos, Michigan, April 2006.
A honey bee on "bee bee tree" flowers.  Evodia danielli, family Rutaceae (same family as oranges).   Simply the most attractive flowers to bees. I have seen over 20 bees on a  single inflorescence.
A honey bee on new England aster.   A cropped photo of the previous one.
A bee in flight to Chinese cabbage flowers.

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A bee in flight to Chinese cabbage flowers. 

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A bee in flight to Chinese cabbage flowers.

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