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2018-35-WM-3004
Sadly, found this blue banded bee deceased on our footpath. We don't see them very often, and they are very quick, so took the opportunity to get some photos of one close up.
They are a native bee to Australia.
This was captured at the CSU Annual Flower Trial Garden in Fort Collins, Colorado. (Zuiko 50mm macro, f/8.0, 1/500 sec., 400 ISO, handheld)
I'm still trying to clear old pictures off my computer to make room for new stuff. Now i'm up to last March. I'm amazed at how many pictures of bees and moths i took last March. I should prune the pictures back before burning them to disc. But i find it extremely hard to delete such pictures if the little critters aren't blurred. No matter how similar the pictures may be.
The mauve daisies are just starting to come out in flower again. And i can see the same types of bees and little moths i photographed last March. I have plenty of pictures of them from every imaginable angle. So i won't be tempted to take more photos of them. Right? Right?
Or wrong.
a little over a year later, same garden, but a different bee on a different coneflower.
my computer and i will be separated for about a week, so this will be my last post for awhile.
I think this may be Bombus pascuorum! But having discovered the Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society website which has 100's photos of all the different bees I am struck again how difficult it is to identify these amazing creatures!
Any ID help gratefully received!