Honey Bee With Pollen Baskets

(Toledo, OH) Pictured on your left is a honey bee visiting one of my sunflowers, and this particular bee is laden with a considerable amount of pollen in its pollen baskets. At first glance I thought this was some unusual variety of honey bee, but after I magnified the image I noticed that this was simply a bee with a very full load to bring back to the hive.

No thinking involved here: just work, work, and work.