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Green orchid bee

Euglossa sp.

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Same species: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/265...

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24 Comments

Fabiano Zacarias
Fabiano Zacarias 9 years ago

Belas fotos, sugiro adicionar a missão abelhas brasileiras.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1296...

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Thanks, Juan DiTrani, I'll edit.

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Thank you all. Sorry, I haven't seen the comments. I am very happy with so many compliments.

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

This is wonderful Sckel! Love it!

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago

I agree with Juan. This spotting is all-around amazing.

rubens.luciano
rubens.luciano 10 years ago

Parabéns, excelente.

outsidegirl0
outsidegirl0 10 years ago

love the last one.. cool series!

thundermak
thundermak 10 years ago

nice pictures

Caleb Steindel
Caleb Steindel 10 years ago

nice one sckel! this is truly amazing!

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 10 years ago

By the way, your last picture is just amazing, I think it deserves a SODT

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 10 years ago

Hi Sckel, congrats for this amazing picture. Unfortunatelly I recommend to you to let the identification to genus (Euglossa). There are several species in the genus and many of them are almost identical, so, until you identified the bee with a stereoscope, its better to say is just an Euglossa sp.

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Thanks Chris Carille & dandoucette

Chris Carille
Chris Carille 10 years ago

Great series! The last pic is great, as well as the one in flight!

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Great series Sckel, really like the last pic. Makes it look huge!

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Thanks Tiz. The plant in which bees are feeding, is a medicinal shrub (Plectranthus barbatus). The juice of the leaves is very bitter. I never thought these flowers attract bees green . Bees yellow do not like these flowers. I took a week to make these photos, because bees get very hectic when you are approaching. They don't bite. They come very close to your face and look directly into his eyes. :)

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

This series could turn a bee-hater into a bee-lover! Outstanding!!

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Thanks, Jared, drP and Cris.

JC_Forester
JC_Forester 10 years ago

Amazing honey-comb eyes!

drP
drP 10 years ago

Try looking at genus Euglossa.

drP
drP 10 years ago

Wow. Beautiful series!

Cris
Cris 10 years ago

Ai que lindo! Tanto a abelha quanto a flor.

injica
injica 10 years ago

possibly!

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

I think it is a green bee. Solitary bee.

injica
injica 10 years ago

Cuckoo wasp, Chrysididae?

Sckel
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Spotted on Jun 2, 2013
Submitted on Jun 2, 2013

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