No stinging comments, please

You can barely see the back end of this busy bee, buried in his work.

Lorlee, our Texas correspondent, has taken up Sosie's challenge of getting close enough to snap a bee in action. She sends along these examples of what she says are Minnesota bees and wasps, probably taken on the family farm near Forada. She should know, she took them all with a camera with a 3X zoom and reports no problems. Of course, these are Minnesota Nice bees, not the Texas killer variety.

Photo art by Lorlee Bartos