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Honey Bee Macro Photography

I saw this lying on my living room that. I was like, gosh is this a bee? What if my son took it and just put it in his mouth. It’s terrifying just by imagining it. After that, i just pick it up and put it into my container and prepare them for a shoot. By the way, this is most probably a honey bee I guess? I can’t tell cause it is hard to specifically identify them.

"A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to Eurasia but spread to four other continents by human beings. They are known for construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax, for the large size of their colonies, and for their surplus production and storage of honey, distinguishing their hives as a prized foraging target of many animals, including honey badgers, bears and human hunter-gatherers. In the early 21st century, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically seven to eleven species are recognized. The best known honey bee is the western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination; modern humans also value the wax for candlemaking, soapmaking, lip balms, and other crafts. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey and have been kept by humans for that purpose, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees, which includes the study of honey bees, is known as melittology."
(From Wikipedia)

Sony a6500
50mm · f/16 · 1/30 · ISO 100
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