Mar 13, 2022
If you find a Trachusa in the East, and probably if you find it anywhere, you are a good keeper of the land. These species and T. ridingsii in particular have just disappeared from much of our landscape. Unlike many other bees they don't integrate well with urban, suburban, agricultural interfaces as currently wrought. That said, we no so little about this species that it may be simply a matter of providing the right set of native plants and we could these lovely beasts around. This is something for you to do dear reader...you can't expect the government to solve all your problems. Captured by Sabrie Breland in the wonderful landscape of South Georgia old growth longleaf pine cared and tended for. Photography by Brooke Alexander.