London, May 29 : A British amateur photographer has clicked the picture of a bumblebee seemingly smiling while collecting pollen.

Forty years old Chris Cox revealed that he snapped the bee in the back garden of his home in Newquay, Cornwall.

He said that he was “just messing around” with his camera at the time, and that he accidentally clicked the smiling face of the bee.

“It wasn't until a few days later that I looked over the images,” Times Online quoted him as saying.

“You would never believe that a bee could have a face like that,” he added.

Surprised by the photograph, Cox even checked the Internet to see whether there existed any other images of the bees “smiling” in this way, and eventually realised that the one clicked by him was a one-off snap. (ANI)