Close up of green bee with black and white striped abdomen collects bright orange pollen from the orange center of a flower with yellow petals.

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

on dahlia flower
in Andersonville neighborhood
July 25th, 2025

#macro #photography #green #MacroPhotography #native #bees #flowers #dahlias #pollinators #bloomscrolling #insects #bugsky #art #greenbees #ColorADay #GreenSat #eastCoastKin

📸 Olympus iso200 f11 1/250

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

in beebalm (monarda)
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
7-10-25

Series’ finale tomorrow 💚

#macro #photography #native #bees #sweatbees #flowers #beebalm #nature #pollinators #insectThursday #greenBees

🐝 Celebrem el #DiaMundialDeLesAbelles! Mira el vídeo i descobreix per què són vitals per al planeta i per a nosaltres. Sense abelles, no hi ha aliments ni futur.
#SalvemLesAbelles #Greenbees #DonemUnaOportunitat

@greenpeace.es @greenpeace-cat.bsky.social

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
on Ashy sunflower

(Agapostemon virescens)
September in Chicago

Hope your Sunday = beauty-full.

#macro #photography #flowers #sunflower #nativeBees #greenBees #gardens #gardening #nature #floral #flowersAndBees #pollinators #chicago #art #stunDay #bugs #insects

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on cosmo flower

September in Chicago
at a neighbor’s pollinator garden

Hope your Monday’s the green bees’ knees.

#flowers #cosmo #flowers #bees #greenbees #gardens #gardening #macro #photography #nature #insects #pollinators #bugs

Green bee in the sun traversing the boundary of a flower’s brown, dome-shaped cone, and its buttery yellow petals.

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on Rudbeckia

June in Chicago
from a neighbor’s pollinator garden

#blueskyartshow #sunlight #flowers #bees #greenbees #gardens #gardening #macro #photography #nature #insects #pollinators #bugs

Female Bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

November in Chicago

#bees #greenbees #agapostemon #pollinators #macro #photography #nature #gardens #insects #bugs 🐝

Emerald green head and thorax, with white and black horizontal striped abdomen, on yellow flower, collecting the large spheres of hibiscus pollen.

Female bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon Virescens)

In hibiscus flower with pollen
June in Chicago

#greenBees #agapostemon #nativeBees #nature #bees #flowers #hibiscus #gardens #gardening #chicago #macro #photography #summer #insects #bugs #wildlife

Green sweat bee
(Augochlorella)

on Aster flower
in late October
Autumn in Chicago
Andersonville neighborhood

Canon R5 100mm
ISO100 f11 1/250
dual-flash/difsn
hand-held & manual

#macro #photography #bees #greenBees #asters #flowers #gardens #gardening #beesAndFlowers #Augochlorella #bugs 🐝

Bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)

Female visiting white cosmo
last June in Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Returning to best pics of 2024 for a beauty inoculation.

#greenBees #bees #pollinators #cosmo #flowers #nature #macro #photography #gardens #gardening

Green metallic sweat bee / San Diego wire lettuce

(Augochlorella pomoniella? / Stephanomeria diegensis)

While visiting my oldest daughter in San Diego, in September.

#greenBees #bees #nativeBees #pollinators #sanDiego #nature #insects #bugs #macro #photography #flowers #wildLife #macroPhotography

Male bee with green eyes and black false pupils, square photo focused on the bee’s head and right eye in the center, yellow mandibles, orange segmented antennae, with one antenna jutting straight out above the eye toward us, and one bent toward the middle right side of the frame, yellow legs standing on the back petals of a bent pink hibiscus flower with noticeable white pollen spheres, and some stuck to the bee.

Male bicolored striped sweat bee / hibiscus

(Agapostemon virescens)

Only from September, yet already last season. Yes, wistful.

#agapostemon #sweatBees #greenBees #bees #flowers #gardens #gardening #nature #macro #photography #nativeBees #solitaryBees #bugs #insects #pollinators #hibiscus

White, lavender, and plum chives in and out of focus taking up the upper right half the photo, divided roughly diagonally, with the bee vertically oriented, its face and most of its legs buried within the chives, only part of its right eye exposed, along with the right side of its green metallic thorax, black and white abdomen, wings including their tips folded neatly down behind, and its right rear leg, setae-covered, stretching down over the signature toward the bottom right corner.

Female bicolored striped sweat bee in chives (agapostemon virescens), May 2024 in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. 🐝

#bees #nativeBees #solitaryBees #sweatBees #greenBees #flowers #green #nature #macro #photography #chicago #andersonville #macroPhotography #gardens #gardening #art #chives