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Title: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: The15thMember on July 29, 2021, 11:55:17 AM
Last evening I was out in my mom's garden and in her patch of zinnias there were a bunch of native bees seemingly getting ready to rest there during the night.  There were a bunch of green Agapostemon bees still working the flowers, but quite a few were just sitting quietly below the stamen. 
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Title: Re: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: The15thMember on July 29, 2021, 11:56:45 AM
I also noticed a cuckoo bee of some sort, Nomada maybe, with its mandibles clamped around a stem, and as I was watching another flew in and arranged itself in a similar manner for the night.
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Title: Re: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: BeeMaster2 on July 29, 2021, 02:54:06 PM
Member,
Nice pictures of the bees on some pretty flowers. I didn?t know that they clamp onto a stem like that.

Jim Altmiller
Title: Re: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: FloridaGardener on July 31, 2021, 05:47:39 PM
Maybe you could send the pics to Rusty Burlew at honeybeesuite. She'd really enjoy those.
Title: Re: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: The15thMember on August 02, 2021, 01:25:09 PM
Quote from: FloridaGardener on July 31, 2021, 05:47:39 PM
Maybe you could send the pics to Rusty Burlew at honeybeesuite. She'd really enjoy those.
Hey, that's not a bad idea.  Maybe I will.  :smile:
Title: Re: Native Bees Resting on Zinnias
Post by: Ben Framed on August 02, 2021, 02:45:29 PM
Quote from: The15thMember on August 02, 2021, 01:25:09 PM
Quote from: FloridaGardener on July 31, 2021, 05:47:39 PM
Maybe you could send the pics to Rusty Burlew at honeybeesuite. She'd really enjoy those.
Hey, that's not a bad idea.  Maybe I will.  :smile:

Member those really are good pictures, you have the photographer's touch!