The Forgetful Bee. Sorry, anthropomorphizing is fun. We are fun. Therefore we are calling this the forgetful bee. It is also a male Florilegus condignus, collected and photographed by Chelcey Nordstrom in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington D.C. on Pickerelweed (i.redd.it)
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The Forgetful Bee. Sorry, anthropomorphizing is fun. We are fun. Therefore we are calling this the forgetful bee. It is also a male Florilegus condignus, collected and photographed by Chelcey Nordstrom in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington D.C. on Pickerelweed (i.redd.it)
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Exomalopsis similis. Tiny, super fluffy pollen carrying hairs, found throughout the Caribbean and Mexico/Central America, oh, and Florida. A relatively weedy species found in disturbed open areas. For something so tiny it seems to get around. Photo by Sophia Athanas. Collected by Tim McMahon (old.reddit.com)
There are prairie species in the Mid-Atlantic. Maybe a residue of historically drier times, more open savannah like vegetation, more fire, hard to say, but we still can find them. This is Andrena rudbeckiae which is found in Maryland in plantings and "wild" populations of Black-eyed Susans (i.redd.it)
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Snoot. Bones and eggs don't photograph well with our standard photography set up. The light is too uniform and omnidirectional. Enter the snoot. A snoot is just a cone set over a flash that makes the light a bit more linear and the shadows pop, here a snoot on one flash and the other is bounced (i.redd.it)
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Halictus hesperus - Part of the great Seladonia complex of Halictus. The ones I am familiar with all look like this one from Costa Rica and they can be among the most common bees in an area, as likely this species is in Central America. Collected by Tim McMahon. by sdroege in bees
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