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Title: Now available in camo-green
Post by: TheHoneyPump on August 03, 2020, 11:50:59 PM
I do not yet know how or why ,..., but there she is and there you go ?   I wonder if she glows in the dark, or has super duper heavy hauling capabilities like Hulk.  LoL. 

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Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: Ben Framed on August 04, 2020, 03:22:27 AM
Wow! In all your experiences, have you ever seen this before?
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: Nock on August 04, 2020, 09:00:04 AM
That?s cool.
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: van from Arkansas on August 04, 2020, 09:55:17 AM
HP, just one single bee or is there more than one?

She is a beauty!!!  Truly eye candy.
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: TheHoneyPump on August 04, 2020, 12:40:49 PM
Just the one.  .
Would bee really fun if one like that popped out of a queen cell eh!

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Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: BeeMaster2 on August 04, 2020, 01:34:00 PM
THP,
That is really unique but I?m wondering if it just has some green pollen on its back. Especially since you are only seeing one in your hive.
Jim Altmiller
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: .30WCF on August 04, 2020, 01:49:10 PM
I?ve noticed them in several of my hives in the last two or three weeks. I think it?s pollen on mine. We may be looking at two different situations though.


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Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: JurassicApiary on August 04, 2020, 03:50:28 PM
Doesn't look like pollen IMO.  Perhaps a genetic variation?  The closeup photo makes it appear as though the sheen of the exoskeleton on her abdomen simply has a green iridescence to it--doesn't look like anything is on it (e.g. pollen) at all to me.  Simply beautiful!
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: TheHoneyPump on August 04, 2020, 10:24:58 PM
Not pollen
Not lighting angle
Definitely a green bee, exactly as pictured.  No ifs or maybes about it.
Definitely only one.
Definitely unique!
I left her to do her thing ... beeing beezy doing bee things.  Perhaps we will meet again next week.
Title: Re: Now available in camo-green
Post by: Acebird on August 05, 2020, 08:52:08 AM
If it were a mutation there would only be one.
Title: Now available in camo-green
Post by: .30WCF on August 05, 2020, 08:54:25 AM
Did you try to feed it pizza, and does it do martial arts?
That?s really the only way to know.

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