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 feeds on a Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare Carduus lanceolatus) flower. The bee has to bury its head deep in the flower to reach the nectar causing it to be well covered in pollen. Bedgebury Forest, Kent, UK. 17 July 2005){kind=link}