Wee lil bee among the common milkweed buds. 📸 Olympus 90mm ISO200 f10 1/250

Masked bee
(Hylaeus)
on common milkweed
yesterday in Chicago

These are little milkweed flower buds, so, yeah, this is a wee lil native bee in its landscape.

#flowerscape #macroscape #scape #eastcoastkin #macro #photography #nature #native #bees #millkweed #hylaeus #pollinators #maskedBees #bugs

The Hylaeus are flying in Saskatchewan, and Hylaeus annulatus (Linnaeus) are all over (and inside of) our raspberry flowers. #beesofcanada #maskedbees #rubus #raspberry #macrophotography

This female Hylaeus annulatus certainly checked out a few of the tunnels in this #beecondo but, as far as I know, did not make a #nest. #colletidae #maskedbees #beesofcanada #bees