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Unwanted Passengers - _TNY_0575

This pretty little lady is a bronze furrow-bee (Halictus tumulorum).

 

Unfortunately it looks like she has attracted a couple of mites between the segments of the abdomen. Someone suggested they look a lot like the dreaded Varroa mites, which would be a bit unusual as those tend to attack honey bees and not solitary species like this one.

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Uploaded on December 1, 2018
Taken on August 24, 2016