Can anyone identify this insect? Bee?

I watched this insect linger for ages in a nasturtium flower, went to grab my camera and only just got a couple of photographs of it. Is it a bee? If so, what type of bee?

Probably too small to see. I will try to make the photograph of the insect bigger.

I struggled with my Photoscape photo editor, it has all kinds of fancy tricks that I don't have the first clue how to use, and I can't work out how to simply magnify the part of the photograph with the bee on it. I ended up with all kinds of unwanted effects but no magnified bee. I tried to delete my post, as nobody would be able to see the bee, but can't delete either.

 

Looks like a bee to me.
Not good at bee ID I'm afraid.

 

I struggled with my photo editor to cut and magnify just the bee, but it came out even more blurred, after struggling with what all the controls do and where to save it to...

I was curious as I think it was a bee, but it had the shape of a wasp. It behaved like a bee.

I need to brush up my photography skills (lack of), but I instantly forget how to do anything complicated even if I ever work out how to do things with a camera or worse photo editors.

 

Looks like a honey bee to me. It's not a wasp.

 

Closer look for you

 

Think it's a Bee too, but don't ask me which one.

This might be of help.

Bee identification guide | Friends of the Earth

 

From that Bee identification guide, I think it was probably a honey bee. Its shape was a bit like a wasp, but it behaved like a bee.

 

Yes, Upsydaisy's Bee Identification Guide has a honey bee, and it looked like that.

 

Might be a mason bee?

 

Anytime you zoom in on an image the quality gets worse. TV programmes that have a photo of a crowd and the detective zooms in and sees the ring on the suspect's finger are all baloney.

 

I think it's a honeybee. But coincidentally, today is the first time I've ever seen a mason bee which seemed to be collecting earth, I've had several in my bee house and have seen them building their nesting chambers, but never actually picking it up!

On a related note, I'm seeing dozens of bee-flies scouting for bee nests to flick their eggs into this year, but the peculiar thing is that I haven't seen a single one feeding on a flower! Very odd!

Nick