📸 Olympus 180mm ISO200 f10 1/250 Notice the pollenia on its right front foot. “Milkweed flowers have a unique pollination method involving pollinia, which are waxy sacs containing pollen. Instead of loose pollen grains, milkweed packages its pollen into these sacs, which are transferred to pollinators when they access nectar.” Wikipedia

Please say hi to a small, native bee

The armored resin bee
(Neotrypetes)

on common milkweed in Chicago, Illinois
yesterday in the Andersonville neighborhood

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Our resin bees continue to emerge from nesting tubes; this beauty is a female Heriades carinata #beesofcanada #resinbees #macrophotography

A resin bee carrying resin - Megachile campanulae (Robertson), a species that we found in SK only a few years ago. The opened nest shows the single brood cell containing a larva, busy eating the pollen & nectar mixture! #beesofcanada #resinbees #beecondo #beenests #macrophotography