Bees & Bumblebees
Images of honey bees, solitary bees, bumblebees and New Zealand native bees. Though the European honey bee is the main focus for agriculture in New Zealand both for homey production and crop pollination, New Zealand has over 20 species of native bees of which relatively little is known. Most of our native bees are small and largely black. Most, if not all, are solitary bees. We regularly see about four of these species in our garden, some of whom are tiny only 5 to 6mm long. I often see them in the puha or sow thistle flowers so leave these weeds to grow and flower in our garden to encourage these native bees.
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Bumblebee On Hebe
$82.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from a hebe flower in our garden. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their...$82.00 -
Honey Bee on Lavender
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from a lavender in our garden. This is a lavandula joyful cherub. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Flax Flower
$100.00A honey bee coming into land on a flax flower in our garden. I spent ages waiting patiently by the flax over several days to get this photo but after many blurred and fuzzy images my patience eventually paid off. Note the full pollen sacks on the hind...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On Salvia
$100.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from a purple salvia flower in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Flying Toward A Foxglove
$82.00A bumblebee flies in to land on a foxglove. I always let plenty of foxgloves grow in various places around the garden since they are so popular with the bumble bees.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or...$82.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-2
$100.00A New Zealand native bee collects pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden. These tiny little solitary bees collect pollen by rubbing it onto the hairs on their back legs and abdomen. They're very active and typically only spend a few seconds...$100.00 -
Honey Bee on Nemesia-1
$100.00A honey bee in our garden collecting pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower. These Nemesia flower steadily from Spring through to Autumn and though they're not the most popular flower in the garden for bees there's always a few bees somewhere amongst...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Flying Into A Foxglove
$82.00A bumblebee flying in to land on a foxglove flower. The fosgloves are always popular with the bumblebees when they start flowering in spring.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$82.00 -
Honey Bee In The Sage
$82.00A honey bee climbing into a sage flower to collect pollen and nectar. The sage is always popular with both bees and bumble bees. I love the contrast of the little godlen bee bodies against the purple flowers. Framing & Mounting: This image can be...$82.00 -
Honey Bee On Rosemery
$82.00A honey bee just landing on a flower in the rosemary. This photo was taken in the garden of a house we stayed in on Great Barrier island during April 2017. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$82.00 -
Bumblebee Landing On Honesty
$135.00Bumblebee coming in to land on an honesty flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$135.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-3
$100.00One of our tiny little NZ native bees, a lasioglossum bee, coming in to land on a nemesia aromatica flower. These are solitary beees that live in burrows in bare groundor clay banks. Note the pollen packed onto its back legs.Framing & Mounting: This...$100.00 -
Bumble Landing On Salvia
$100.00A bumblebee lands to feed on a salvia flower. The salvia is very popular with both bumblebees and honey bees. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Nemesia Aromatica
$100.00A honey bee gathering nectar and pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden. Note the bright yellow pollen sack on its hind leg. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Sage
$100.00A honey bee landing to collect pollen and nectar from a sage flower in our herb garden. Sage is one of my favorite flowers to take photos of bees because I love the contrast between the golden bee and the purple flowers. The flowers are also just the...$100.00 -
Honey Bee in the Salvia
$82.00A honey bee collecting pollen from a purple salvia flower in our garden. There's always plenty of honey bees and bumble bees around the salvia. It's one of those plants with a long flowering season that really draws the bees in. Framing & Mounting:...$82.00 -
NZ Native Bee-1
$100.00One of New Zealands tiny species of native bee on a vibernum flower. This is a lasioglossum bee. They are solitary bees that live in burrows. The adult bees are only 5 or 6 mm longFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-2
$100.00A bumblebee flying amongst the purple salvia flowers in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-4
$100.00A New Zealalnd native lasioglossum bee landing on a nemesia aromtica flower in our garden. These beautiful little bees are only about 5mm long and are solitary bees that live in tunnels that they bore into bare ground or clay banks.Framing &...$100.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-5
$82.00A tiny little New Zealand native lasioglossum bee collecting pollen from a nemesia aromatica flower. These bees are only about 5mm long. New Zealaldn has over twenty species of these tiny solitary bees.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased...$82.00 -
NZ Native Bee
$100.00A lasioglossum bee, one of our tiny New Zealand native bees collecting pollen from the blue daisy like flower of a felicia amelloides. These bees are solitary bees that live in burrows in bare ground.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-1
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from oregano flowers. These tiny flowers are one of the bees favourites.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-4
$82.00A bumble bee probing the inner secrets of a purple salvia flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$82.00 -
Bumblebee On Honesty
$100.00A bumblebee feedingon the nectar from an honesty flowerFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
NZ Native Bee-2
$100.00A tiny lasioglossum bee on a vibernum flower. These are one of a number of tiny New Zealand native bees. They are solitary bees that normally live in burrows in the ground.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-5
$100.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from purple salvia flowers in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-3
$82.00A bumblebee busy gathering pollen from the salvia flowers.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$82.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-1
$82.00A bumblebee hanging from a purple salvia flower as it gathers pollen.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$82.00 -
Bumblebee On Oregano
$100.00A bumblebee drinking nectar from tiny oregano flowersFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Honey Bee In The Salvia-3
$100.00A honey bee climbing into a salvia flower to feed on the nectar.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Thyme-1
$100.00A honey bee feeding on some thyme flowers in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-4
$100.00A honey bee feeding from the tiny oregano flowers. When the oregano comes into the flower we get hundreds of bees coming in, its one of their favourites.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-3
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from the tiny oregano flowers, one of its favourites.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$100.00 -
Honey Bee In The Salvia-2
$82.00A honey bee feeding on the purple salvia flowers. The salvia is a favourite with the bees and is covered in both bumble bees and honey beees throughout the summer. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or...$82.00 -
Honey Bee On Swan Plant Flower
$100.00A bee collecting pollen from swan plant flowersFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-2
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from oregano flowers. Oregano is one of the favourite flowers for the bees, they swarm in when the oregano is in flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On The Hebe
$100.00A bumblebee foraging on a hebe flower in our garden. Not sure what this hebe is called but it is one of the most popular flowers in our garden during Autumn for both bees and butterflies. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on...$100.00 -
Fresia With Honey Bee
$100.00A Honey Bee Climbing out of a purple fresia flower in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Disapperaring Into A Foxglove
$100.00A bumblebee disappearing into a foxglove flower in our garden. Sometimes the bumblebees will disappear into these flowers for hours at a time. I think they get drunk on the nectar and fall asleep.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On Salvia Flower
$100.00A bumblebee in our garden foraging in the salvia. There's always plenty of bees in the salvia, it's a popualr plant with both bumblebees and honey bees.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00