As robthebold pointed out, they don't hold still very well.
This was a luck shot i discovered after looking through the ~50 attempts i made.
Key was imo that the thyme has so many blossoms that while hopping from one to next every 2 seconds i could still follow them.
The macro effect became much more intense when i cropped it down from 4000px width to ~2400.

To get more precise on the species, it is an Andrena, subgenus Gonandrena, a sand or mining Bee. They seem to be kind of rare and thus i keep the hill they dig their wholes into untouched.
Reading into the species i learned that not all of them dig their own holes but some are called cuckoo bees and just place their stuff into other bees holes so they do not need to raise up kids. Brilliant.

I guess this is worth mentioning, we have the World Bee Day today as i saw.