Posts Tagged: Bembix

'The Little White Bees'

If it looks like a bee, sips nectar like a bee, and buzzes away like a bee, that doesn't mean it's a bee. Last weekend we visited a Fort Bragg nursery specializing in succulents, and these "little white bees" were all over the red flowering thyme...

Sand wasp on red flowering thyme. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sand wasp on red flowering thyme. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Abdomen of sand wasp: note the black and white curvy stripes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Abdomen of sand wasp: note the black and white curvy stripes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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