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Do not know if it's a wasp or bee. Once a year 1 to 2 are always subject to the same plant (lavender). Your body is more like a sighting, but its compartments is certainly like bees.
Spotted on Dec 20, 2012
Submitted on Mar 11, 2014
8 Comments
ups!
Thanks!
Yes, it looks really sweet, but it should be sweat. I do this "mis-reading" all the time as well ;-)...
Pablo - I think it is "Sweat" ... :)
Thanks Leuba!
Pablo, all these bees look almost identical. I think it might not be possible to get down to genus/species level without a real expert.
Very nice, Pablo. The yellow pollen and blue look great together !
Bayucca
Displaying the links, the more similar it is certainly the "Temnosoma metallicum"
The others look very green. But it could be because of the photo itself.
If they are in Argentina and Brazil, not unlikely that they were here.
Some time (maybe 1 or 2 months ago), in the Discovery Channel website, a photo appeared on these bees (and other).
He said he lived in sandy areas near California (USA) and fed on the flowers growing on the edges of these sands.
This is most probably a Sweat Bee from the family Halictidae. Maybe Halictinae and Augochlorini??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halictidae
Just an example, not the species!
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
http://www.yorku.ca/bugsrus/bee_genera_o...