When Your Outfit is Outdone, Pt. 7 - _TNY_9681

This female patchwork leafcutter bee (Megachile centuncularis) actually looks really nice with her orange skirt.

 

When landing on the flower of a woolly burdock (Arctium tomentosum) however, it is pretty effectively eclipsed by the colour explosion of the flower which, somehow, manages to not be perceived in that way from normal viewing distances.

 

Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48241954276/

 

Part 2 is not the exact same bee, but the same species on the same flower taken three day later in the same place: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50953053408/

 

Part 3 is this bee again: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51079386492/

 

Part 4 is the closest: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51796094607/

 

Part 5 is this bee: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52717638266/

 

Part 6 is this bee: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53727755558/

Done