Perdita albihirta geraeae, \
found in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Small, yes.
Do you like all that whiteness on the dark and oft metallic blueness? Note the bright white web of veins, the minute snow of hairs across the surface of the wings, the contrasting white and dark bands on the abdomen. These bees rule with drylands, deserts, and sands evolving over 500 species in the United States along, because one is not enough when plants ask you to specialize.













