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Those of you who remember Bertie Bee..he must have been an older bee I could shoot him..but these youngsters don't wait..I have lots of pretty Lavender but know bee..zooom they are gone..LOL
All the bee shooters deserve a medal for all there fantastic shots..back to the garden
Carries pollen differently from Bumblebee & Honey bee. Does not have a pollen sac, scopa is a brush of hairs.
The Dark-edged Bee-fly looks rather like a bumblebee, with a long, straight proboscis that it uses to feed on nectar from spring flowers such as primroses and violets. It is on the wing in the early spring, when it can often be seen in sunny patches. In flight, it is even more like a bee as it produces a high-pitched buzz.
As much as I'm not a huge fan of this prolonged hot, dry weather, it seems to have been good for bees and it's about time they had a good year.
LÃo 2.0. Reto: Macro.
Mi intención al leer el reto era NO traer ninguna flor esta semana ... al final no lo he podido evitar aunque tengo algo diferente como descarte. Me cuesta bastante enfocar con el macro y además todavÃa no tengo bien controlada la cámara nueva, le he hecho un reportaje de unas 15 fotos a la abejita y para que me saliera bien he tenido que usar el enfoque manual: se ha portado bien y no se ha movido mucho :D. La verdad es que estoy contenta con el resultado, a ver qué os parece.
About the size of a grain of rice, this is a sweat bee of the genus Agapostemon (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictinae).
Pollinator Profile: Halictid Bee and Sweat Bee
Halictid bees and sweat bees are very similar and both are part of the family Halictidae. However, sweat bees are the best-known members. They have very noticeable colours of black to brown to metallic green. Some have abdominal stripes and yellow legs. Sweat bees are a quarter to half inch (6-12 mm) long. Compared to little carpenter bees, their abdomens are wider and pointed. Sweat bees are fairly hairy and also have thick tarsi (hind leg pollen baskets) and relatively short antennae. Their heads, when viewed from the side, are wedge-shaped.
Commonly seen in the summer, these bees are native to North America. As solitary bees, they individually build their vertical burrowed nests in the ground, usually in clay or sandy soil. Depending on the species, the females might dig their nests close together, sometimes even sharing a common entrance tunnel.
The females mate and then lay their eggs in a nest filled with pollen to provide food for the larvae when they hatch. Adult bees feed on pollen and nectar. The females have pollen collecting apparatus on their hind legs, but males do not. Sweat/halictid bees will visit a wide variety of flowers in the course of a day, their hairy bodies collecting pollen as they go, making them important pollinators of many plants. However, they are not domesticated for pollination purposes and only appear in the wild.
Besides being attracted to nectar, the bees are attracted to perspiration. On hot days, the bees will sometimes hover around or land on a person to lick their sweat. Usually they will only sting if touched or disturbed. (from Pollination Canada www.seeds.ca/proj/poll/index.php?n=Halictid+and+Sweat+Bee...)
There are many varieties of this tiny pollinator. For more photos you can go here: bugguide.net/node/view/128
On a purple Aster in my garden. (sharpened with Picnik)
These gals were laying low when the smoke was so thick in our valley but now they are out and making up for lost time.
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