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sweat bee

Description:

metallic green bee with pollen "baskets" on its legs in the family sweat bee http://bugguide.net/node/view/128/bgpage... possibly species Augochlora pura http://bugguide.net/node/view/79292/bgpa...

Habitat:

in garden on scabiosa

Notes:

The color was more of a lime green to the naked eye, and very metallic. In this photo it picked up the darker color of the blossom

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2 Comments

KarenSaxton
KarenSaxton 11 years ago

Thank you. I just posted another one on a different flower http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/116...

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 11 years ago

Beautiful colour..

KarenSaxton
Spotted by
KarenSaxton

North Bend, Oregon, USA

Spotted on Jun 17, 2012
Submitted on Jun 18, 2012

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