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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!

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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.