Ingo Arndt / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) adult hatching out of brood cell, Germany.
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Ingo Arndt / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) opening brood cell before hatching, Germany. Winner of Fritz Polking portfolio prize, GDT 2012 competition.
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May.
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May..
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May.
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load for brood cell Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May.
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee capping off nest brood cell with mud, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May.
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee capping off nest brood cell with mud, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June
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Phil Savoie / Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) female bee bringing in pollen load under her abdomen for brood cell in bee hotel. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May.
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Nick Upton / Red mason bee (Osmia rufa) female emerging from her nest hole in a drilled log within an insect hotel after provisioning a brood cell with pollen, Gloucestershire garden, UK, April.
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Phil Savoie / European honey bee (Apis mellifera) newly emerged female worker pushes out of brood cell, Monmouthshire, Wales. September.
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Phil Savoie / European honey bee (Apis mellifera) newly emerged female worker pushes out of brood cell, Monmouthshire, Wales. September.
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MD Kern / Palo Alto JR Museum / European honey bees (Apis mellifera) hatching from brood comb with larvae. One halfway emerged and another just beginning to emerge chewing it's way out from under cell cap, captive.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pupa in brood cells, Europe
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) worker emerging from brood cell near pupa, Europe
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on brood cell of queen, with queen inside the cell, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) honeycomb with drone males hatching, while others have hatched or are still in brood cells, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) brood honeycomb with covered drone brood, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) pair of drone males hatching out of brood cells, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone male hatching out of it's brood cell, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) honeycomb with drone males hatching, while others have hatched or are still in brood cells, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone looking out of it's brood cell, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group tending to brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group tending brood, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group tending brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group tending to brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pupa at different growth stages in brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pupa in brood cell, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) tending brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pupa in brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pupa in brood cell, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from brood cell, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from brood cell, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) pair tending brood in nest, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group on nest with brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group on nest with brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group on nest with brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group on nest with brood cells, France
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) group on nest with brood cells, France
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Nick Upton / Red mason bee (Osmia rufa) female carrying ball of mud to seal brood cell, arriving at insect hotel. Wiltshire, England, UK, May.
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Nick Upton / Wood-carving leafcutter bee (Megachile ligniseca) female in flight, carrying leaf to line brood cell in insect hotel. Wiltshire, England, UK. July.
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Nick Upton / Wood-carving leafcutter bee (Megachile ligniseca) female carrying leaf to line brood cell into nest hole in insect hotel. Wiltshire, England, UK. June.
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Nick Upton / German wasp (Vespula germanica) emerging from brood cell sealed with silk, inside wasp nest. Wiltshire, England, UK. July.
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Nick Upton / Two-coloured mason bee (Osmia bicolor) flying to her nest in a Brown-lipped snail (Cepaeae nemoralis) shell with a chewed up leaf to seal a brood cell with after provisioning it with balls of pollen a...
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Nick Upton / Two-coloured mason bee (Osmia bicolor) entering her nest in a Brown-lipped snail (Cepaeae nemoralis) shell with a chewed up leaf to seal a brood cell with after provisioning it with balls of pollen an...
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Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker bees building a queen brood cell (early stage of construction) inside a nest cavity, Germany. August.
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Ingo Arndt / Close up of a Honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen hatching out of a brood cell, Germany. May. Sequence 4 of 7
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Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) drone brood cells characterised by the domed cell lids, Germany.
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Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood cells with covered worker brood, recognizable by flat cell lids, Germany.
