Posts Tagged: Lasioglossum

A Very Tiny Bee

At first glance, it appeared to be a gnat circling our head. Then it landed on our passionflower vine (Passiflora). It cooperatively stayed still...

A tiny sweat bee, Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A tiny sweat bee, Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tiny sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tiny sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Assassins, Bugs and Beer

There I was, walking across the University of California, Davis, campus to the Environmental Sciences Building for an agricultural communicators'...

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)

Mother's Day Delight

Mother's Day, insect-style, dawned like any other day. In our back yard, golden honey bees foraged in the lavender and those ever-so-tiny sweat bees...

Italian honey bee foraging on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Italian honey bee foraging on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sweat bee (genus Lasioglossum) visiting rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sweat bee (genus Lasioglossum) visiting rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug, aka lady beetle, chasing aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug, aka lady beetle, chasing aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Squatters' Rights

Squatters' rights. A dandelion poking through the rocks near Nick's Cove on Tomales Bay, in Marshall, Sonoma County, seemed an unlikely host for...

Fly-In

HOVER FLY, from the family Syrphidae swoops down on a dandelion claimed by a sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Two's Company

TWO'S COMPANY--A tiny sweat bee and a hover fly share the same dandelion. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

On the Rim

POLLEN-PACKING sweat bee (top) prepares to leave the dandelion to the much larger hover fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Alone

ALONE, the hover fly nectars the dandelion flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

No Sweat!

Okay, everybody in the pool! That means bees, too? It does.  Sweat bees. You may have noticed the tiny bees--common name “sweat...

This is a Lasioglossum (Dialictus) sp. female, as identified by emeritus professor and native pollinator researcher Robbin Thorp of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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