A bright yellow shaggy-petalled dandelion flower on which a medium sized golden-orange bee is sitting. She has impressive flowing orange hairs on her hind legs, a more tawny thorax and her abdomen has tawny-interspersed-with-more-blond hairs on. She looks dopey but tidy and fresh, and she is a real live bee on a flower in February!

I know you folks in eastern USA are still wrapped in your woollies (stay safe!), but here in the UK it is getting warmer and brighter and the first solitary bees are out! Andrena bicolor female today! #SolitaryBee #Entomology #FirstBeesOfSpring #Bee #Pollinator