Shiny metalic green bee with its tongue, that is much longer than the length of its body, looping forward and then back under the body as it rests on a green leaf where a small true bug is also resting.
...and What about a New World #Bee for World Bee Day! This is an #orchid bee from Amazonian #Ecuador, #Euglossa sp., #Euglossini, #Apidae, #Hymenoptera. It was photographed along a trail outside of Tena, #Ecuador in 2024. Look at the length of that tongue!
Metallic green orchid bee with a tongue or Proboscis curving under the body, the proboscis is longer than the body! Resting on a green leaf.
Metallic green orchid bee with a tongue or Proboscis curving under the body, the proboscis is longer than the body! Resting on a green leaf.
“Oh that tongue!” #Orchid #bees ( #Euglossini) #Euglossa sp. have an incredible long proboscis (some longer than their bodies! -Yup!) to draw nectar from long tubular flowers. Bees like this were common on a trail at La Universidad Regional Amazónica-#IKIAM, near #Tena, #Ecuador #Hymenoptera
