Eucera dubitata. I love this particular individual bee. Sabrie Breland captured this specimen in Baker County Georgia. She does such a great job prepping her bees. This is what we live for photographically-wise. Check out the "tongue." There is a lot of architecture in that tongue. Clearly pointing out that it is a lover of the deep recesses of flowers (meaning it works with serious flowers that have deep recesses and not party flowers like daisies, apples, yarrow, and holly that just lay their pollen and nectar out for any old Halictidae to grab) and once again showing that bees are not from this planet but were brought here by aliens. Continuing the topic hopping this is a spring long-horned bee. The whole Eucera group seems to be largely ignored by everyone except Jim Cane at the Logan Bee lab who is their quiet champion. I am also shamed by the fact that I left so much of the pin in this picture...normally I would have foxed that baby out of existence. Must have been distracted by humans that day. I am somehow both satisfied and unsatisfied by this rambling post.
