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Yellow Discs - _TNY_8792

Here is a cute plasterer bee known as either the Davies' Colletes (Colletes daviesanus or the bare-saddled Colletes (C. similis).

 

The first of them manages two generations during a Swedish summer, the first flies when the ox-eye daisies are in bloom and gen two during the tansies - at which point the second species is also around. And since this one is on a tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) near the small island of Notholmen in Värmdö, Sweden - there is no telling which of them it is.

 

Also, just below the bee, a fruit fly Tephritidae sp.) is photo bombing the shot

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Uploaded on July 23, 2024
Taken on July 20, 2024