Bee on Sage

This bee is caught harvesting a sage flower. Photographs of bees on flowers will fill a book by the time I stop shooting. I have an irresistible fascination and compulsion to capture images of these hard working insects. They gather pollen for food and, in the process, perform the  important task of transferring pollen so that the plants will bear fruit. This picture was shot with a Canon 5D camera equipped with a 50mm macro lens on May 5, 2013.