#sweatbees

[pogomcl]

Furry-claspered Furrow Bee, Lasioglossum lativentre Canon 5D3 Sigma 70 2.8 f/6.3 1/320 iso: 160 Prague, czech Republic 7/19/2024 #

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Bzzz!

Just some bees in my garden and in the fields and on a neighbourhood walk. :)

Featured bees include bumblebees (native), green sweatbees (native), honeybees (invasive), carpenter bees (native), and some I'm not sure about.

Featured flower hosts include bull thistles (invasive weed), rose of sharon (invasive), New England aster (native), cup plant (native), starthistle (not native), Nuttall's sunflower (native), purple coneflower (native), anise hyssop (native), white wood aster (native), swamp milkweed (native), sow thistle (invasive weed), creeping charlie (invasive), creeping thistle (invasive weed), wild rose (native maybe), wild bergamot (native), bride's feathers (native), bigleaf lupin (native maybe or invasive), and upright prairie coneflower "Mexican hat" (native species, but a cultivar).

All my photos, unedited. Don't mind the weirdness of the third last photo. It's my phone's "portrait" which I found out belatedly can have, uh, interesting results.

[mycthefirefly]

sweat bees. Tiny tiny bee that's about 1cm. Due to their small size, I first mistaken them as hover flies. But they have longer antennas and "smaller" eyes (unlike the silly sunglasses-looking eyes flies have).

隧蜂，一種非常小的蜂，會採蜜。約一公分長。喜歡人的汗水。

[usgsbiml]

The Lawn Bee.  Lasioglossum imitatum.  If you are looking for bees in any urban/suburban/highly disturbed habitat in the East, you will find this bee.  Small even for a Lasioglossum, it loves whatever conditions it loves about lawns and beat up habitats.  A survivor, a crow and sparrow bee that surely is not on the list of declining bees species.  To save this bee you should put in a ball diamond.  Would it be so easy for the rest of the species.  Probably fond of small invasive fast food pollen, I am not sure how much quantification there has been of its diet.  Id wise, it has wide cheeks and tiny thick bright white prostrate hairs on its abdomen that occur in nice parallel lines (not too obvious in this series of shots).  Picture by Erick Hernandez.      

[pogomcl]

Bronze Furrow Bee, Halictus tumulorum Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/5.6 1/400 iso: 125 Prague, Czech Republic 6/19/2024

[pogomcl]

Golden Furrow Bee, Halictus subauratus Canon 7D EFS-60 2.8 f/5.6 1/320 iso:125 Prague, Czech Republic July 22, 2020

[gardenwife]

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@katesnowbird Kate, I know I probably massacred your name, but it's funny that this little guy took an interest in my pen the same day I saw your photos of the hoverfly checking out your book as you read. I grew up calling them sweat bees and only learned a couple years ago that they are actually flies. I like these little beneficial insects. . . . #hoverfly #hoverflies #sweatbees #insects #tinyvisitors #cornfly #cornflies #bugs #creepycrawlies

[driftlessroots]

Metallic green and stripes. What's not to love! One of my favorite bees, Agapostemon #bees #sweatbees #nativebees #solitarybees #pollinators