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Green Sweat Bee on Sunflowers

All Bee Species, Bee Species and Life cycle and Habits, Metallic Green Sweat Bee, Sweat Bee, Vilcabamba Ecuador S.America Flowers, Vilcabamba Ecuador South America Bee Life

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Green Sweat Bee on Sunflowers in the garden full of pollen. Photos of the tiny green sweat bee is easy to miss on a large sunflower, collecting nectar.

Green Sweat Bee on Sunflowers

Pollen is plentiful for these tiny bees, when they forage for nectar deep in the sunflowers.

A green sweat bee on sunflowers, full of pollen.

Describing Green Sweat Bee on Sunflowers

These tiny bees can easily not be seen on the large sunflowers, as they hide in the flowers and obtain nectar.

Green sweat bee full of pollen on a sunflower

Getting full of pollen, this pretty colorful green bee and its amazing anatomy. Note the shiny gold like piece on its thorax.

pollen covered green sweat bee on a sunflower

These sunflowers are difficult for the small bee to navigate its way to seek nectar on the sunflowers, without getting coated with pollen.
Its entire under body and legs and its face are coated with yellow pollen.

face and body full of pollen is this green sweat bee on a sunflower

The photo below we can notice the pretty metallic green body and wings of this bee. Great pollinators.

green sweat bee with pollen covered body on a sunflower

The bee keeps trying to obtain nectar and forage for food.

sunflower and pollen covered green sweat bee
Learn more on life cycle.

The life cycle of these bees can be learnt from the green sweat bee page, here.

close up of this green sweat bee full of pollen

A amazing bee and green colors with so much yellow pollen on its body. She cant help but get smothered with pollen.

metallic green sweat bee with pollen all over its legs and body

All Bees species are wonderful pollinators and pollen provides essential food for the young.

more about sweat bees.

  1. A green sweat bee pollinating flowers
  2. Bees foraging on wild flowers

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