Closeup of an eastern carpenter bee facing the camera. Its open, opaque, smoky brown wings are blurry. It has 2 large black eyes, 2 black antenna, and the yellow face. Its barely visible thorax is fuzzy and yellow. 4 black legs are visible with 2 yellow 'toes' and black claws. The background is light grey.

Image of a wandering centris facing away from the camera. Its open, opaque, slightly black tinged wings are blurry. It has 2 black antennae and 1 black eye. Its abdomen is mahogany and its thorax and head fuzzy and orange brown. 2 legs are visible: the back leg mahogany and the other orange brown. To the right of the bee is part of a purple, flowering thistle, and behind right a green budding thistle. The background is blurry green and grey.

Image of a coelioxys slossoni on a yellow camphorweed facing away from the camera. Its open 4 wings are opaque and smoky. Its abdomen is pointed with thin, white stripes and thicker black stripes except for the 1st thick stripe near the thorax, which is dark mahogany. It's thorax is black with a rectangle made of thin, dotted, white stripes. Its head, 2 eye, and 2 antennae are black. 5 legs are visible, which are all mahogany. The background has more blurry camphorweeds.

Image of a barrel cactus woodborer on the edge of a yellow barrel cactus flower with its left side facing the camera. Its folded 4 wings are opaque and smoky. Its abdomen has thin white stripes and thicker black stripes. Its thorax is black with a thin, white stripe near its head. Its head, 2 eye, and 2 antennae are black. 4 legs are visible, which are all dark red. The background is more of the barrel cactus.

4 native bees for World Bee Day!

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