Green Sweat Bee 💚

Another little green sweat bee appeared today. They don’t make an appearance often so I lucked out getting this shot. This is an interesting fact about these solitary bees who nest alone. They dig burrows deep in the ground to lay their eggs. Sometimes these nests are communal, where a burrow entrance is shared by group of females. Each female branches out from the entrance to create her own tunnel where she nests alone and takes care of her own young. The responsibility of guarding the main entrance is shared among the group. Do you think they have arguments about whose turn it is to guard the entrance? You know they do! ☺

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Is that a Bee or a Fly ❓

It’s a hoverfly. They look like bees though. The best way to tell them apart is their wings. Hoverflies have two, bees have four. They do pollinate though and they don’t sting so let them be ❤

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