Rob, "life and death" has a live show everyday, almost every minute, in and on every square metre of soil on the planet. One of the fascinating things ( for me) with close up insect photography is that you start to notice miniscule things, like the mites and lice that live on the subjects. Not that it really matters in the greater scheme of things I guess, all considered.
On a side note Dave, I was wondering if this is not one of the Pollen Wasps ( Masaridae family) rather than a bee perhaps?