Posts Tagged: metallic sweat bee

Assassins, Bugs and Beer

There I was, walking across the University of California, Davis, campus to the Environmental Sciences Building for an agricultural communicators' meeting: a notebook in my hand, cell phone in my pocket, and my trusty pocket camera strapped around my...

A fast-moving assassin bug spears a male metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A fast-moving assassin bug spears a male metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Assassin bug paralyzes his prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Assassin bug paralyzes his prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

'Bee a Scientist' on May 8

Get ready! It's almost time to count the pollinators! The University of California's Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) wants you set aside three minutes on Thursday, May 8 and count the pollinators wherever you live--and they live--in...

A male longhorned bee, Melissodes communis, as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male longhorned bee, Melissodes communis, as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male green metallic sweat bee Agapostemon texanus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male green metallic sweat bee Agapostemon texanus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, in flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, in flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee, Apis mellifera, on a begonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee, Apis mellifera, on a begonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's All About the Community

If you like community gardens, then you'll want to visit the Avant Garden at the corner of First and D streets in Benicia. The Benicia Community Garden (BCG) signed a lease agreement in the fall of 2010 with Estey Real Estate to establish a downtown...

A yellow-faced bumble bee on a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-faced bumble bee on a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A hover fly, aka flower fly or syrphid fly, soaking up sunshine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A hover fly, aka flower fly or syrphid fly, soaking up sunshine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A spotted cucumber beetle and a green metallic sweat bee sharing a cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A spotted cucumber beetle and a green metallic sweat bee sharing a cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a male green metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a male green metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Eyes Have It

The eyes have it.Look at the compound eyes of an insect. Some are colorful, some are drab. But they are all organs that detect light. Most insects "have some sight and many possess highly developed visual systems," write UC Davis entomology professors...

Blow Fly

EYES of the blow fly glowing red in the sunlight. This fly is perched on yarrow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee

EYES of a honey bee are rimmed with hair. This worker bee is nectaring lavender (and keeping a close eye out on the photographer). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee

EYES of yellow-faced bumble bee scan the horizon. This is a Bombus vosnesenskii atop catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Metallic Green Sweat Bee

EYES of a metallic green sweat bee are rimmed in fluorescent green. This is a male sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus (as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp of UC Davis). It is on a seaside daisy at Tomales Bay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Leafcutter Bee

EYES of a leafcutter bee peer over rock purslane. This is a male Megachile sp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Something Quite Magical

There's something so magical and captivating about the metallic green sweat bee.Shouldn't it be yellow? No.Is it a bee? Yes.Does it attract attention? Definitely.We spotted this male green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, on what is commonly known as a...

Green Metallic Sweat Bee

THIS MALE green metallic sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, is nectaring a Seaside daisy, the Erigeron glaucus Wayne Roderick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Going Up

SHOWING ITS STRIPES, the male green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, climbs up a Seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus Wayne Roderick). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Eyes Have It

EYES of the metallic green sweat bee are clearly visible in this photo of a bee nectaring an aster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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