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hmcclaff.bsky.social
Common carder bumblebee on devil's bit scabious from August #Fridaybee #Fridaybees #invertebrates #macrohour
February 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
ktfrost.bsky.social
Here’s one for #beefriday #fridaybee with a photobomber #butterfly
#flowers #ecinacea #photography #wildflowergarden
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#FridayBee a common carder bumblebee in the sunshine 🌞
#nature #macro #BeeFriday #sunshine #invertebrates 🐝
A common carder bumblebee with ginger thorax and abdomen feeds on a pink petalled geranium flower.
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
maybelmamazed.bsky.social
Yay! Here I come! 🐝
#flowersonfriday #foxglove
#fridaybee #bumblebee
#nature
A close-up of vibrant purple foxglove with a bumblebee approaching, set against a partly cloudy blue sky
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
A common carder bumblebee 📸 taken in the Meadows, Edinburgh 🐝🌸 #Fridaybee #bumblebee #BeeFriday #summersounds
A fresh common carder ginger yellow bumblebee foraging on a little group of tiny flowers. The background is out of focus greenery.
August 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
Here's a male common carder bumblebee for #Fridaybee (nearly forgot - distracted by the storm 😄). #bumblebees #nature
⏰️ 🤭 @thegreenjeanie.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
A leafcutter bee foraging in the sun #Fridaybee #solitarybee 🐝 #theweethings ##beeFriday
A small bee forages on the side of a purple flower. Her pollen brush on the underside of the abdomen appears orange and is loaded with pollen.
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
🐝 a honeybee in the garden this week foraging on winter flowering heather.
#Fridaybee #beeFriday
A honeybee feeds upside down on a pink flowering heather plant. Her pollen baskets are filled with a whiteish colour pollen.
March 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
🐝 a beautiful queen bumblebee from yesterday's lunchtime walk in Edinburgh. She was doing OK despite the chilly weather! #Fridaybee #beeFriday #inverts #macrohour #phonephotography
A pollen covered queen buff-tail bumblebee sits in the edge of a apurple crocus petal
March 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
beefolklore.bsky.social
I had a lovely bumblebee visit this morning!

Look at her gorgeous fuzzy pile 💛🐝💛

She was outdoors 2 seconds later btw!

#fridaybee #nature #photography #insect #bees
March 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
A common carder bumblebee feeding on a lungwort flower this week. She looked quite small for a queen but a little too early I think for a worker? #Fridaybee #BeeFriday #bumblebees
A common carder bumblebee feeding from one of the 3 deep pink coloured lungwort blooms.
April 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
Last summer, along the roadside at Loch Katrine, lived the yellowist bumblebees I've ever seen! #Fridaybee ##BeeFriday #naturephotography #bumblebees #macro
A close up photo of a ginger and very yellow bumblebee foraging on purple devil's bit scabious.
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
🐝 #FridayBee Bombus hortorum the garden bumblebee. Queen bee seen on 7/4/25. Three yellow stripes and a white tail. #BeeFriday #bumblebee #invertebrate #spring #queenbee 🐝🌺
A large garden bumblebee queen approaches a purple flower. Her head and thorax are highlighted in the sunshine.
April 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
thegreenjeanie.bsky.social
#beefriday #fridaybee
thegreenjeanie.bsky.social 🐝Jean Vernon🐝 @thegreenjeanie.bsky.social · Feb 27
It’s #beefriday tomorrow and have I got a bee for you? Of course I have. A freshly found today (!) queen buff tail Bombus terrestris on the nectar rich edgworthia! I can’t begin to tell you how uplifting the sound of her #buzz is! #fridaybee
Edgworthia flowers image c. Jean Vernon Bombus terrestris on edgworthia flowers c. Jean Vernon
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#Fridaybee #beeFriday A photo from last summer ☀️. A common carder bumblebee looking tiny on top of a huge flower 🐝
A side on view of a common carder bumblebee foraging on top of a very large spiky purple flower.
April 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
I saw my first bumblebee of the year out in Edinburgh on the 22nd of Feb. If this year is the same then its not long to go before they're back! Here's a Buff-tailed queen bumblebee from that week #FridayBee #Fridaybees
Buff-tailed bumblebee queen foraging head down on a white crocus
January 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
🐝🌼🐝 #BeeFriday
A common carder bumblebee feeding on a yellow flower 🏵
Happy Friday! Enjoy the sunshine while we wait for a little bit of rain! ☀️ 🌧 ☀️
#FridayBee #macrohour #bumblebee
A close-up side on view of a common carder bumblebee feeding on top of a bright yellow flower.
May 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#Fridaybee A tiny guest at the picnic 🐝
This honeybee visitor landed on a pop-chips bag. After cleaning its antennae it left for a nearby flower! #BeeFriday
A close up photo of a honeybee showing its head and part of its thorax. It is sitting on a plastic colourful wrapper.
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#BeeFriday 🐝 The bees knees 😄
We've got to Friday again! A common carder bumblebee a little faded now and with ragged wings #FridayBee
A small brown bumblebee sits on top of a little group of pink flowers. It's back leg is bent so you can see it's knee. The wings are held out behind and the ends are a little ragged.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
kingsdowner.bsky.social
#beefriday #fridaybee
kingsdowner.bsky.social Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · Mar 21
I do like a nice hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes)
March 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#FridayBee a fluffy bumblebee foraging on a purple flower #BeeFriday #pollinators 🐝🌺
A close up photo of a black and yellow bumblebee which is drinking from a purple flower. Its large eyes are looking towards the camera and pollen grains are visible on its head. The antennae are pointing forward above the flower and the wings are stretched out behind its thorax.
February 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#BeeFriday a common carder bumblebee on a cornflower in the meadows garden in Edinburgh. 🐝 #FridayBee #theweethings
A rear view of a carder bumblebee feeding on a purple/blue large cornflower in the middle of the shot. Out of focus behind is the greenery of the garden with a trellis just visible.
July 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
#BeeFriday 🐝 Feeling the end of summer approaching but there's still bees about! A little common carder bumblebee feeding on budleia #Fridaybee
A small ginger common carder bumblebee forages on the top of pink budleia blooms. Blue sky and clouds are behind the bee. It is side on to the camera with wings stretched out behind and antennae in front.
September 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
A buff-tailed bumblebee looking very fresh for #BeeFriday
🐝 - not sure of the flower he's sitting on tho 🤔

#Fridaybee #bumblebees #macro
A buff-tailed bumblebee sits on top of a purple petalled flower. He has black hairs on his face, an orangy yellow collar and a beiger yellow band on the abdomen. The white tail has a 'teastain' where it meets the black hairs.
August 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
hmcclaff.bsky.social
On the buddleia in the kirkyard not so very long ago, a fresh little common carder bumblebee caught my eye 🐝
#Citywildlife #Fridaybee #bumblebees
A little ginger yellow common carder bumblebee forages on top of pink/purlple coloured buddleia flowers. The bee is shown side on to the camera with wings stretched out behind and antenna bent in front. the background is out of focus greenery
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM