25 photos of bees to celebrate World Bee Day
In honor of World Bee Day on May 20, here are 25 photos in celebration of nature's hard-working pollinators.
In this July 16, 2014, file photo, a bee works on a honeycomb at an apiary in central California. A study published in the journal Science on April 1, 2021, finds that farmers in the U.S. are using smaller amounts of better targeted pesticides, but these are harming pollinators, aquatic insects and some plants far more than decades ago. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
In this Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, the queen bee (marked in green) and worker bees move around a hive at the Veterans Affairs in Manchester, N.H. The annual survey released June 22, 2020, of U.S. beekeepers found that honeybee colonies were doing better after a bad year. The survey found winter losses were lower than normal, the second smallest in 14 years of records. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
This 1991 photo shows a close-up of an Africanized honeybee or killer bee. (AP Photo)
A bee descends on a blooming cactus flower May 19, 2009, at Cielo Grande Recreation Area in Roswell, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
A bumble bee hovers over gorse in Noss Mayo, Devon, in south west England Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen)
A carniolan honey bee works the hyacinth in Washington Park in Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A colony of honeybees is seen at the United States Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory, April 25, 2007, in Beltsville, Md. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Honey bees that reside in hives on the 20th floor roof of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York swarm to consume their own honey as they are removed for a routine inspection, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. At the Waldorf, the insects were visible from certain rooms, and guests signed up for tours of the hives. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 photo, a bee works atop Gift Zinnia at Hudson Valley Seed Library in Accord, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Beekeeper Sean Kennedy works to relocate a swarm of honeybees off of a fence line in a neighborhood in Anacostia, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
In this May 20, 2019, file photo, honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, in Salt Lake City. Honeybees are among well known species that best illustrate insect problems and declines, according to University of Connecticut entomologist David Wagner. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
In this Aug. 7, 2019, photo, a beekeeper holds a frame of honeybees as she instructs veterans at the VA's beehives in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Honeybees fly around beekeeper Sean Kennedy as he works to relocate a swarm from a fence line in a neighborhood in Anacostia, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Beekeepers Sean Kennedy and Erin Gleeson set up a new hive at the corner of the Swiss residence where Swiss Ambassador to the US Jacques Pitteloud offered space for new hives for captured swarms of honeybees in the Northwest, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Beekeeper Erin Gleeson pulls out a bee clip containing a queen bee, marked with a blue dot on its back, in a new hive location on the corner of the Residence of the Swiss Ambassador which Swiss Ambassador to the US Jacques Pitteloud offered for captured swarms of honeybees in the Northwest, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A bee flies toward a blooming milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., Wednesday, June 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A bee pollinates a milkweed flower at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, Friday, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Honeybees are shown at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Beekeeper Sean Kennedy brushes bees off of his truck after setting up a new hive at the corner of the Swiss residence where Swiss Ambassador to the US Jacques Pitteloud offered space for new hives for captured swarms of honeybees in the Northwest, Monday, April 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
In honor of World Bee Day on May 20, here are five things you might not know about nature's hard-working pollinators.