First thing, I would like to thank @Flamingirl for this great initiative. This is a nice way to promote macro photography and to discover this magnificent activity.

Before being a fan of the macro, I'm especially passionate about insects and especially bumblebees and bees. I love to observe them in nature and the macro is a way to immortalize these sometimes magical moments to their contact.

Since a few months, I specialized in the macro with a Smatphone. I don't use my Canon any more. The result is certainly much worse but I find it more raw and we gain a lot of spontaneity with a simple Smartphone and we are more free of his movements.

I present you here a bee, photographed on two different flowers. As a reminder, bees have been on Earth for about 40 million years, so long before us. Today, they are threatened by human folly, but fortunately resistance is getting organized and people are becoming more and more sensitive and aware of the importance of insect polinators.

Enjoy and thanks about this contest :)

PS  The second pic is for the contest (below)