Honey Bee and the Pollen Basket

[Samyak Lohade]

Clicked at Saswad near Pune, May 2012
@ 1/1250s f/5.6 ISO 400
Camera Equipment
Nikon D3100 with a Nikkor 55-200 mm AF lens

Honey Bees generally have sac like structures on the legs which collects the pollen and nectar. This leads to pollination as the bee visits flower to flower.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I have no idea about the species. Probably, Abhishek or Bhavya can gives us the id.

The thick black border distracts in critiquing. Thanks for sharing.

Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

This could be Apis florea (not sure)... It is certainly one of the Apis honeybees. I think you could have done with a higher Av since you had more that adequate shutter speed. Increasing the brightness would make it better too. Nice depiction of the pollen basket. Many a times bees are considered pests and destroyed (especially in the cities). We fail to understand how important these creatures are for sustaining forests by pollination.
TFS

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice behavior captured. Agree with Abhishek about the brightness. Maybe a slight less space on the left and more on the right to include the flower petals in full would be nice. Thanks for sharing the detailed information.