On a blueish green leaf a tiny dark bee is grooming his antenna. He is a shining a dull metallic bronze green in the fading evening light
Teeny Lasioglossum on a snowberry leaf
About 5mm long & shining greenish bronze in the evening light
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A large-eyed black bee with sparse grey fuzz is perched on top of a cluster of tiny creamy white flowers. It has its thin tongue extended into the flower, drinking nectar.
Heriades, or armoured resin bee
About 7mm long, part of the Megachilidae family, along with leaf-cutters & masons
On yarrow/Achillea millefolium
July 11.25
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A fuzzy grey and black leaf cutter bee perches atop the yellow centre of a purple aster flower. The bee has a huge, glossy, grey and black eye facing the camera, and its face is covered in white fur.
Bee break for mental health-
leaf-cutter bee on Douglas aster.
I never stop being in awe of the diversity of bees on our small urban lot.
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo
Summer 2024
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A bee with a black and white striped abdomen, an upper body covered in fuzzy white hair, and a huge glossy black eye sits on small cream coloured blossoms.
Soft focus cellophane bee on Oceanspray.
These guys line their nest tunnels/egg cells with a plastic film that is waterproof and anti microbial.
Colletes sp. on Holodiscus discolor
June 2024
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End ‘Nanaimo’
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A large fuzzy bumble bee clings to a partially-open chive blossom. The bee has distinctive spots and patches of black, white, and yellow fur.
This gorgeous creature is the Vancouver Island bumblebee.
Seventeen-plus genera of native bees now inhabit my small urban lot, up from basically zero a few years ago. All I’ve done is put plants in the ground.
Bombus vancouverensis vancouverensis
2024
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