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RE: A photo series of flowers and invertebrates in my garden
I don't think I'm going too much out on a limb to say that's a European honey bee (Apis mellifera). And the beetle is some kind of weevil, from the Curculionidae family. I may not know exactly what kind it is, but rest assured it's destroying something we want, lol. The cuculio's are such pests on so many crops!
Thanks for the identifications! I've gotten another person who said it was a European honey bee (Apis mellifera) as well, so I think it's time to conclude that this is correct.
I also got another person suggestion it to be a snout beetle (Curculionidae), and after some searching I believe it might be a Hylobius abietis, but there are apparently 3-4 species that look almost identical, so it's impossible to say for sure.