As promised, here is my reworked bee photo. I tried to up the contrast a bit and bring out the color more. Did I get it right? WOuld love your comments - thanks!
I'm not sure just how clear the image of the bee is, but yes, I think you've improved this, but a closer cropping to the subject itself while offsetting it might also improve your work.
"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange