A bee collects pollen into a pollen basket or corbicula from panicles of a Skimmia japonica 'Rubella' shrub flowering in a garden in Surrey in spring

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Location: Surrey, England, UK
Photo credit: © Graham Prentice / Alamy / Afripics
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