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A green sweat bee visiting purple prairie clover which is a wildflower. I love the metallic green sheen of this tiny pollinator.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and USDA Agricultural Research Service's Bee Lab pioneer non-lethal bee surveys at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in spring and summer of 2024. Photo courtesy of USDA Agricultural Research Service.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and USDA Agricultural Research Service's Bee Lab pioneer non-lethal bee surveys at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in spring and summer of 2024. Photo by Joanna Gilkeson/USFWS
A closer look at this one, in another portulaca flower. These are so photogenic...
Ok, it may be wasp vs bee. I had the Green sweat bee in my viewfinder when the larger TBA bee/wasp swooped in and attacked. The struggle was not long, the fight went out on a yellow petal and then it flew off with its prize. The Wild golden glow didn't mind at all.
These are beautiful sparkly native bees. Always catch my eye when the sun hits them. They seem to really like yellow flowers which go well with their iridescent green. Tiny jewels.
Female Green Sweat Bee (Augochlorella sp.)
Floating Primrose-willow (Ludwigia peploides)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland Texas
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These little green metallic bees are luckily drawn to my gaura blooms. It wasn't 9 am yet and this one already had quite a load.
I wish I'd realized the full story here when I took this photograph. First, a real first, it's a green sweat bee in one of my poppies. Second, it's entangled in a web and the spider is still at work. When I photographed it, I didn't see the spider - I just thought "rats, the beautiful little bee had died in a web" and went on with my search for a fresher subject. Rats.
no bird required
A mating Agapostemon texanus pair on Cosmos in a garden in El Cerrito
Hylephila phyleus
A female Agapostemon texanus on Grindelia
