Coelioxys hunteri, male, a bee that is a nest parasite of leaf cutting bees. This is just the specialized and distinctive end of this lovely bee. Jones County Georgia, obtained form the USFS Experiment Station...
From Cumberland Island National Seashore another little Lasioglossum from the glossy metallic Dialictus group. As its name implies...it has an unusually long head. Photograph by Brooke Alexander Canon Mark I More
A very southern Lasioglossum, this one sneaking up the coast only about as far as this site on Cumberland Island National Seashore. Photography by Wayne Boo. Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, More
A very southern Lasioglossum, this one sneaking up the coast only about as far as this site on Cumberland Island National Seashore. Photography by Wayne Boo. Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled More
From Cumberland Island National Seashore another little Lasioglossum from the glossy metallic Dialictus group. As its name implies...it has an unusually long head. Photograph by Brooke Alexander Canon Mark II More
From Cumberland Island National Seashore another little Lasioglossum from the glossy metallic Dialictus group. As its name implies...it has an unusually long head. Photograph by Brooke Alexander Canon Mark II More
Here is a lovely carpenter bee from the southeastern part of the U.S., a bit smaller than X. viginica and as far as I know nests in twigs rather and does no damage to timbers (not that X. virginica does much in More