African Honey Bee

Me to not Botanist or Biologist.. The info you telling is different Genus... what I want to ask. Hope you understand. But your spotting is very beautifully captured. Here is big life seen..!!

Ashish, quite right. see i'm no botanist, and the only description of "Tricholepis" in both wiki and eol is: "Tricholepis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family." perhaps you could further describe the genus to clarify for me?

The plant was already identified (thanx Wren) in a previous comment as a Bull Thistle "Cirsium vulgare". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_thistl...)

We see here similar plant in India..
http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/sli...

Asteraceae is Daisy family... These all thistle plants classified in Asteraceae...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium

Ashish: no it is not a daisy, it is a thistle.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle)

Nice..Is the Herb is Tricholepis sp..?

Wren: They are not indigenous to SA.

Hi dungeonmasterShu, beautiful bees! I see you have submitted them to the Great Pollinator Project mission, but unfortunately this mission is only for the NYC area. :)

on a bull thistle! beautiful photo - i didn't know bull thistles grow in s. africa.

this is a nice picture, you have a Honey bee, a couple of Andrenid bees and a fly