This flower spike was attracting lots of bees at the arboretum today. I was lucky enough to catch a couple in flight.


In both of these shots, it looks like the bees are coming in for a landing, but in each case I was actually trying to shoot the bee on the flower, and by the time I clicked, the bee was flying away, backing away from the flower.


It's a beautiful, tall flower spike. Sorry, I don't know what it's called.