Close-up photo of a cluster of small blue trumpet-shaped flowers. Each flower has a surprisingly bright red-orange center with a tiny border of white inside the blue petals. Hanging on the bottom of the cluster is a native bumble bee - she has yellow-green fuzz on her back with a little black spot in the center, and her wings and legs and eyes are a shiny metallic black.

A gorgeous bumble bee in SC - my parents pulled up to the Arrivals curb at the airport to find me squatted over this bush, cooing to the bumbles

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Close-up photo of a textured white cotton beekeeping suit and a single honeybee clinging to it

First bee to land on me after setting up my first hive

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Bees find me everywhere.

Today in the grocery store parking lot, a honeybee flew up to me as I was loading my bags into the car. We had a chat. She flew circles around my face like she recognized me and landed on my arm a couple times.

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